It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

I expect to see the day when the Elders of Israel will protect and sustain civil and religious liberty and every Constitutional right bequeathed to us by our fathers, and spread these rights abroad in connection with the Gospel for the salvation of all nations. I shall see this whether I live or die.

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.

If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!

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

When I look upon the faces of intelligent beings I look upon the image of the God I serve. There are none but what have a certain portion of divinity within them; and though we are clothed with bodies which are in the image of our God, yet this mortality shrinks before that portion of divinity which we inherit from our Father.