Karl G. Maeser Quotations

Make the man within your living ideal.

He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.

Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'

A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.

Be yourself, but always your better self.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.