The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

Trust is greater than love.

Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.

The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.

The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

The basis of all sin is selfishness.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.