His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

School gets in the way of my learning.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

It were not best that we should all think alike.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.