An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people.

Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he thought out a faith by which to live.

Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. All its emphasis rests upon two extremely simple and profound principles, love of God and love of man.

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels.