The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Love well, whip well.

Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.

In the dark, all cats are grey.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Well done is better than well said.