“His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.”

“I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.”

“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”

“We will be held accountable for all that we say. The Savior has warned ‘that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.’ (Matt. 12:36.) This means that no communication shall be without consequence. This includes the slight slips of the tongue, the caustic communications that canker the soul, and the vain, vulgar, and profane words which desecrate the name of Deity.”

“A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.”

“That which we most desire, we worship as our god; for that which is chiefly desired is the chief good in his account, who so desires it. And what he counts his chief good, that he makes his god. Desire is an act of worship . . . and to be most desired is that worship, that honor, which is due only to God. To desire anything more or so much as the enjoyment of God is to idolize it, to prostrate the heart to it, and worship it as God only should be worshipped. He only should be that one thing desirable to us above all things. . . .”