Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishab….

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth..

Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways..

Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and wor….

An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people..

Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which,….

Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone..

It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, als….

The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture ….

The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousne….

Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its bea….

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness..

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - a….

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last..

London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still dimly remembered,….

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart..

Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depe….

To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be ….

Be the kind of person you would like to be with. Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our hearts and we are never the same. People are….

So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and f….

Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. ….