Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

Don't spend your money till you have it.

The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human being and the most incumbent on his study and investigation.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.