I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it

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

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.