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

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.