One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.