"I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the Gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities,…"

"I am a rough stone. The sound of the hammer and chisel is continually upon me. I desire the voice of the Lord to ring in my ears, and I am willing to bear the consequence."

"I am a man of peace, and hate contention."

"If a man marry a wife by my word, which is the word of the Lord, and by the new and everlasting covenant, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise, according to the ordinances of my Ho…"

"And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren.…"