My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else. If they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

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

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

A man who did not have but one wife in the Resurrection that woman will not be his but be taken from him & given to another.

I wanted to thunder and roar out the Gospel to all nations. It burned in my bones like fire pent up... Nothing would satisfy me but to cry abroad in the world, what the Lord was doing in the latter days.

I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administrators who trample the Constitution and just laws under their feet.

Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.