My favoured temple is an humble heart.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment all the while however exercising ourselves in goodness.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.