That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

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

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.