Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
George A. SmithInto every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
George A. SmithPart 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.
George A. SmithIf we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
George A. SmithHappiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
George A. SmithWe 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.
George A. Smith