Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.
Everyone’s life is an object lesson to others.
School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.
Let your first ‘good morning’ be to your Heavenly Father.
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.
Be yourself, but always your better self.
Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.
All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.
There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.
A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.
Say to your soul, ‘Let no unclean thing enter here.’
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
Every human being is a world in miniature. It has its own centre of observation, its own way of forming concepts and of arriving at conclusions, its own degree of sensibility, its own life’s work to do, and its own destiny to reach. All these features may be encompassed by general conditions, governed by general laws, and subject to unforeseen influences and incidents, but within the sphere of their own activity, they constitute that great principle which we call individuality.
Those who work merely for the sake of reward do not comprehend the purpose of their living here upon the earth.