Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.