When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.

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

We need to learn, practice, study, know, and understand how angels live with each other. When this community comes to the point to be perfectly honest and upright, you will never find a poor person; none will lack, all will have sufficient.

Every organization of our government, the best government in the world, is crumbling to pieces. Those who have it in their hands are the ones who are destroying it. How long will it be before the words of the prophet Joseph will be fulfilled? He said if the Constitution of the United States were saved at all it must be done by this people. It will not be many years before these words come to pass.

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

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

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.