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

... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.

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

If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.

As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.

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.

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