A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.