If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth...

Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

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

That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.