It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.
Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!
It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.
Learn to be good for something.
Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.
Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.
My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.
Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning...
Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.
If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus.
We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.
All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.
The gifts of the Gospel are given to strengthen the faith of the believer.
Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.
Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.
Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them day by day in their progress to eternal happiness; for this is the privilege of the faithful.
There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.