That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

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

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

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.

Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais.

Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.