Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.
Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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.