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

Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.