Birth: January 16, 1828 Death: February 15, 1901
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool..
All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart..
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reachi….
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God..
School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle..
There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth..
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities..
Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father..
Be yourself, but always your better self..
Make the wise man within you your living ideal..
Make the man within your living ideal..
Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor..
Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion..
The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience..
Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'.
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 floati….
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others..