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

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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 - and that is what really counts in the end.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 futile.

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

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 indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.

Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

I am not perfect. Are you? Let us accept the fact that nobody is perfect. Let us learn to accept our imperfections as well as those of others.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

And I'm sort of deconstructing the process of what marks came first, what came later. Every aspect of the image is interesting to me to dissect and understand.