Pride Is Not The Heritage Of Man;

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.

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.

It Is Not In The Books Of The Philosophers, But In The Religious Symbolism Of The Ancients, That We Must Look For The Footprints Of Science, And Re-discover The Mysteries Of Knowledge.

We Must Pass Through The Darkness, To Reach The Light.

To Sow, That Others May Reap; To Work And Plant For Those That Are To Occupy The Earth When We Are Dead; To Project Our Influences Far Into The Future, And Live Beyond Our Time; To Rule As The Kings Of Thought, Over Men Who Are Yet Unborn; To Bless With The Glorious Gifts Of Truth And Light And Liberty Those Who Will Neither Know The Name Of The Giver, Nor Care In What Grave His Unregarded Ashes Repose, Is The True Office Of A Mason And The Proudest Destiny Of A Man.