Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

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.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

There's a way out of every situation.

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.