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

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

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.

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

The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.

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

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.