I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches

To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.

The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.

This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly.

Learn to be good for something.