It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

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.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.