No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

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.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.