Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

[On religion:] Wasn’t it invented by man for a kind of solace? It’s as though he had said, ‘I’ll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,’ and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.

The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life’s sorrows.

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

The more I see the less I know for sure.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

Once you truly understand that it is okay to lose or fail, you are free, you have nothing to fear, and only then, can nothing in this world hold you back.

The rain comes and what bends will rise. It is a purposeful journey.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.