There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

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.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

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

Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.