The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold