The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer.
All religious expression is symbolism.
Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.
Work only can keep even kings respectable.
We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.
Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.
If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
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