DeWitt Clinton

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.