Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

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

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

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.

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

Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.

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