All religious expression is symbolism.

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

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

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

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

Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.