The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men.

Trust in God, always take care of each other.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all men by the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Illinois.

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.