"A big black leather chair stood in Brigham Young's office by the Lion House. First-time visitors to the office were invited to sit on that chair, facing the strong light of day and the calm blue eyes of Brother Brigham. President Young, according to Grandfather, would never say a word for the first three minutes. And at the end of those first three minutes he always knew exactly the sort of man he was dealing with, and the nature--greedy, benign, or sinister--of his business. Brigham Young used to say that no man if allowed to speak could possibly avoid revealing his true character, "For out of the abundance of the heart the tongue speaketh." It is important to know this if we would understand Brigham Young himself. No man ever spoke his mind more frankly on all subjects; all his days he strove to communicate his inmost feelings, unburdening himself without the aid of notes or preparation in a vigorous and forthright prose that was the purest anti-rhetoric." [Publisher's abstract]