I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

What you would seem to be, be really.

You may delay, but time will not.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.

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.