Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth 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.

I am in the prime of senility.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.