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.

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

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.

Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.

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.

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.

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