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

To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.

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

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.

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

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

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.