The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.
Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.
That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.
There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries.
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all that’s sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.
Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.
Man’s real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books.
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.
It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.