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

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.

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

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

Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.

The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.