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.
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.
Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.
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.