The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.

If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.

Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor of the government as you know we are all friends to the Constitution yea true friends to that Country for which our fathers bled.

I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .

Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.