The Eyes Of The Cheerful

We Masons Are Among The Fortunate Ones Who Are Taught To Meet Together With Others Opposing Convictions Or Competitive Ideas And Yet Respect Each Other As Brothers.

The Universal Medicine For The Soul Is The Supreme Reason And Absolute Justice; For The Mind, Mathematical And Practical Truth; For The Body, The Quintessence, A Combination Of Light And Gold.

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.

A Man Should Live With His Superiors As He Does With His Fire: Not Too Near, Lest He Burn; Nor Too Far Off, Lest He Freeze.

The Doctrines Of The Bible Are Often Not Clothed In The Language Of Strict Truth, But In That Which Was Fittest To Convey To A Rude And Ignorant People The Practical Essentials Of The Doctrine.