What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection. -L. L. Williams
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If you have one true friend you have more than your share. -Thomas Fuller
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To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all. Politics merely furnish one arena which imposes special tests of courage. In whatever arena of life one may meet the challenge of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience-the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, ever the esteem of his fellow men-each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they can not supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. -John F. Kennedy
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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a man of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated men are free men. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot, by force of arms, release the spirit or the soul of man. -Confucius
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The men whom I have seen succeed have always been cheerful and helpful, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took changes and chances of this mortal life like men. -Charles Kingsley
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A Lodge is not held together with steel bands, but by the silken ties of brotherhood, woven of interest, friendliness, good times, wholesome fraternal intercourse. -Author Unknown
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Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promotive of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother. -George Washington
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The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. -Author Unknown
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Each day I learn more than I teach;
I learn that half knowledge of another's life leads to false judgement;
I learn that there is a surprise kinship in human nature;
I learn that it is a wise father who knows his own son;
I learn that what we expect we get;
I learn that there is more good than evil in this world;
That age is a question of spirit;
That youth is the best of life;
No matter how numerous its years;
I learn how much there is to learn. -Virginia Church
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener. -Robert Frost
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There is no defense against an evil which only the victim and the perpetrator knows exist. -WRF
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To awaken each morning with a smile brightening
my face;
To greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains;
To approach my work with a clean mind;
To hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things,
the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working;
To meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my
heart;
To be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours;
To approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep,
and the joy that comes from work well done-
This is how I desire to waste wisely my days. -Thomas Dekker
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below, sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and hate. -J. F. Newton
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. -Elisabeth Barrett Browning
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Man is incurably curious; his desire to know and to understand is the mainspring of invention, discovery, civilization, progress, the driving force which leads then to learn. -Author Unknown
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The man who joins with youths stays young in heart and mind. In exchange for the gift of their vitality and eagerness, the mature of man can give guidance and trust, a sympathetic ear and helping hand. -Henry C. Clausen
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The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive them. To give them to those who do not seek, or who are not worthy, would but impoverish the Fraternity and enrich not those who received them. -Author Unknown
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So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind. - George Washington
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The secret of success is consistency of purpose. -Ben Jamin Disraeli
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