A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul.

Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

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

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.

God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below, sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and hate.