Subject:Thoughts from the TrestleBoard
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 21:20:33 -0400
From: "Steven K. Robison"
To: Freemasonry-list@masonic.org

Here are a few thoughts from the July, 1997 Jackson Lodge #146 TrestleBoard, for your consideration:

"Happiness grows at our own fireside, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."
--Douglas Jerrold

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true."
--James Branch Cabell

"The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt."
--Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

He ne'er is crowned With immortality, who fears to follow Where airy voices lead.
--John Keats

"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it."
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"To know just what has to be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life."
--Sir William Osler

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars."
--Henry Van Dyke

"If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get."
--Vernon Luchies

"If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability."
--Cicero

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
--Fydor Dostoyevsky

"Avarice hoards itself poor; charity gives itself rich."
--German proverb

Fraternally,
Steven K. Robison, PM
Secretary, 1997
Jackson Lodge #146
Seymour, IN