Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

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.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.