Work only can keep even kings respectable.

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

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood. For whenever the door of any Degree is closed against him who believes in one God and the soul's immortality, on account of the other tenets of his faith, that Degree is Masonry no longer.

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.