| Hiram in the brow of hill, eyes gone dry with weeping,
Sprig of green Acacia and life beyond the grave;
Lion's Paw and Master's Word teach death is but sleeping,
Soul in immortality, as water in a wave. |
Bro. C. H. Claudy |
| Each cloud-capped mountain at a holy alter;
An organ breathes on every Grove;
And the full heart's a Psalter,
Rich in deep hymns of gratitude and love. |
Bro. Thomas Hood |
| Men look to the East for the drawing things,
for the light of the rising sun
But they look to the West, the crimson West,
for the things that are done, are done. |
Bro. Douglas Malloch |
| If you want to know where the future of Freemasonry will grow and prosper it's simple - in the heart, in your heart, in my heart, and in the hearts of those who follow us. |
Conrad Hahn |
| Freemasonry is "veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols" because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart. |
Bro. C. H. Claudy |
| The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. |
Mark Twain, American writer and Freemason |
| Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. |
Norman Vincent Peale, American minister and Freemason |
| So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry , I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised for the good of mankind. |
Bro. George Washington, first President of the United States |
| The grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race. |
Bro. George Washington, first President of the United States |
| Masonry is an art, useful and extensive, which comprehends within its circle every branch of useful knowledge and learning, and stamps an indelible mark of preeminence on its genuine professors, which neither chance, power, nor fortune can bestow. |
Preston |
| Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind. |
Bro. Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States |
| Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity. |
Arnold |
| Everything which tends to combine men by stronger ties is useful to humanity; in this point of view, Masonry is entitled to respect. |
La Lande |
| Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man. |
Gen. Douglas MacArthur |
| Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me. |
Bro. Harry S. Truman, thirty-third President of the United State |
| Gentle, gracious, and wise its mission is to form mankind into a great redemptive brotherhood. A league of noble and free men enlisted in the radiant enterprise of working out in time the love and will of the eternal. |
Joseph Fort Newton |