There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

I kiss your tear-stained cheeks, tasting the saltiness of a hidden sea of sorrow.

Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.

She liked him. She liked the feeling of liking him. She felt light and smiley and too full of excitement to think of anything else.

Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

Your first name's white, your second is Hispanic, and your third belongs to a black. No wonder you don't know who you are.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation.