We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Today is just another day of trying to get by without you.

Every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill!

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

The thing is, I'm happiest when I'm on stage.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.

Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.