We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow minded, pinch-backed race of man, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They aught to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.