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

“The Lord never does anything arbitrarily.”

“Youth demands recreation, and if it is not provided in high places, they will seek it in low places.”

“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.”

“Maeser Chalkboards Preserved”

“Infidelity is consumption of the soul.”

“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 unholy enter here.”