Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.

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.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

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.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.