The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

Remember that I too am mortal.

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

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.