"Intellect is to the people and the people's Force, what the slender needle of the compass is to the ship — its soul, …"

"Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks."

"The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; — a terrible…"

"Though Masonry neither usurps the place of, nor apes religion, prayer is an essential part of our ceremonies. It is t…"

"Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and L…"

"The Bible is an indispensable part of the furniture of a Christian Lodge, only because it is the sacred book of the C…"

"The Sun is the ancient symbol of the life-giving and generative power of the Deity. To the ancients, light was the ca…"

""Thy sun," says Isaiah to Jerusalem, " shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the Lord sh…"

"Work only can keep even kings respectable. And when a king is a king indeed, it is an honorable office to give tone t…"

"Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, a…"