To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the onlooking world consent to it is a finer. - Mark Twain

Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate. If he, according to tradition, merely translated it from certain ancient and mysteriously-engraved plates of copper, which he declares he found under a stone in an out-of-the-way locality, the work of translating was equally a miracle, for the same reason.