We live our little life; but Heaven is above us and all around and close to us; and Eternity is before us and behind us; and suns and stars are silen….

I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth..

Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries.