"You ought not to cross your children unnecessarily, for it makes them ill-natured."

“I can freely forgive you, and I pray God to forgive you. It is God that forgives you; I am but your fellow-servant.”

“It is now spring of the year, and you have all had the privilege of being taught the way of God; and now you may all go home and be faithful with your hands. Every faithful man will go forth and put up his fences in season, and will plow his ground in season, and put his crops into the ground in season; and such a man may with confidence look for a blessing.”

“Do all your work as though you had a thousand years to live; and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow.”

“When I confessed my sins, I labored to remember the time when and the place where I committed them. And when I had confessed them, I cried to God to know if my confession was accepted; and by crying to God continually I traveled out of my loss.”

“Put your hands to work and give your hearts to God.”

“You ought never to speak to your children in a passion; for if you do, you will put devils into them.”