Karl G. Maeser

"I have been asked what I mean by 'word of honor.' I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls--walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground--there is a possibilit…"

"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 d…"

"The fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom. This life is one great object lesson to practice on the principles of immortality and eternal life. Man grows with his higher aims. Let naught that is …"

"The fireside is an emblem of the future heavenly home...To obtain the highest conception of the calling of a man and a woman in the capacity of parents, one must look upon them from an educational poi…"

"Infidelity is consumption of the soul."

"No righteous rules, however rigid, are too stringent for me; I will live above them."

"I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God."

"Be yourself, but always your better self."