Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at the glimmering mass and only later wonders what makes them move in that way. I read somewhere-_Harper's_, I'm fairly certain-that the fish are only avoiding pockets of extra cold water.

Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.