Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other.

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.

I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all men by the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Illinois.

Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other.

The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.

The standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.