In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable..

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth..

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter..

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not..

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter..

NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficul….

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering..

You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter.

Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them..

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter..

For the assertion that "There is no God" is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that "There is a God." Therefore, the former asser….

When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. I’ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift..

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge..

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are ….

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter..

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life..

No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves.

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers..

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science..

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it..

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never..