Pride Is Not The Heritage Of Man;

Force, Unregulated Or Ill-regulated, Is Not Only Wasted In The Void, Like That Of Gunpowder Burned In The Open Air, And Steam Unconfined By Science; But, Striking In The Dark, And Its Blows Meeting Only The Air, They Recoil, And Bruise Itself.

We Do Not See And Estimate The Relative Importance Of Objects So Easily And Clearly From The Level Or The Waving Land As From The Elevation Of A Lone Peak, Towering Above The Plain; For Each Looks Through His Own Mist.

Reverence For Greatness Dies Out, And Is Succeeded By Base Envy Of Greatness.

Almost All The Noblest Things That Have Been Achieved In The World, Have Been Achieved By Poor Men; Poor Scholars, Poor Professional Men, Poor Artisans And Artists, Poor Philosophers, Poets, And Men Of Genius.

The Blue Degrees Are But The Outer Court...of The Temple. Part Of The Symbols Are Displayed There To The Initiate, But He Is Intentionally Misled By False Interpretation. It Is Not Intended That He Shall Understand Them, But It Is Intended That He Shall Imagine That He Understands Them...the True Explanation Is Reserved For The Adepts, The Princes Of Masonry (those Of The 32nd And 33rd Degrees)