If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .