The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

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.