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

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

'Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If we are not admitted until then, we shall never be admitted.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

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.