Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. -Cicero
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People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. -Joseph Fort Newton
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Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity. -Henry C. Clausen
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Elliot
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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, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest documents of the order. -J. F. Newton
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The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be loss, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, us all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away. -William James
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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as young as your faith, as old as your fear; as young as your hope; as old as your despair. -Author Unknown
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Questions to find an educated man are:
Has your education made you a friend of all good causes?
Has your education made you a brother to the weak?
Do you see anything to love in a little child?
Would a lost dog follow you in the street?
Do you enjoy being alone?
Do you believe in the dignity of labor?
Can you look into a mud puddle and see the blue sky?
Can you go into the night, look up into the sky, and see beyond
the stars?
Is your life linked with the Infinite?
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. -Author Unknown
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We can only know the fullest joys of Masonry when we truly walk the paths of service and of hard work in the quarries. -George E. Burow
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There are no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart. -Author Unknown
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I would say there are three steps in Masonry. The first step is the ritual; the second step would be the fellowship to be taken and enjoyed; and the third step would be Masonic information for enlightenment or education. -William K. Bailey
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A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials. -Author Unknown
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Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its aspects. "Free" is the most vital part of Freemasonry. It means freedom of thought and expression, freedom of spiritual and religious ideals, freedom from oppression, freedom from ignorance, superstition, vice and bigotry, freedom to acquire and possess property, to go and come at pleasure, and to rise or fall according to will of ability. -H. W. Coil
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the measuring of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. -Elton Trueblood
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Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn. -Author Unknown
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It is time to pass the cover to a generation born of the last half of this century, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow destruction of our Fraternity by those who will not give way and permit the advancement of the Order.
With our only certain reward being a good conscience, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth together leading those whom have not yet become Free Masons but are truly Masons at heart. -WRF
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That one things we have to teach, that one thing we Masons have as the key to our secret, the end-all and the be-all of Freemasonry is, you are my brother and I am yours. -Conrad Hahn
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