Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

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.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.