A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.

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.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

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.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.