“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”

“I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.”

“It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.”

“Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and of fiery trials, which school was necessary for Jesus, our Elder Brother, who, the scriptures tell us, ‘was made perfect through suffering.’ It is necessary that we suffer in all things, that we may be qualified and worthy to rule, and govern all things, even as our Father in Heaven and His eldest son, Jesus.”

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

“If the suffering of children goes to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest that the truth is not worth such a price.”