I Took My Obligations From White Men,

If The Effort Also Is Predestined, It Is Not The Less Our Effort, Made Of Our Free Will.

We Seem Never To Know What Any Thing Means Or Is Worth Until We Have Lost It.

The Power Of A Free People Is Often At The Disposal Of A Single And Seemingly An Unimportant Individual; A Terrible And Truthful Power; For Such A People Feel With One Heart, And Therefore Can Lift Up Their Myriad Arms For A Single Blow. And, Again, There Is No Graduated Scale For The Measurement Of The Influences Of Different Intellects Upon The Popular Mind. Peter The Hermit Held No Office, Yet What A Work He Wrought!

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.

Every Masonic Lodge Is A Temple Of Religion; And Its Teachings Are Instruction In Religion.