The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.
The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole.
If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.
We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.
The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.
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.