Work only can keep even kings respectable.

We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.

That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

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.

Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.

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.