Love is not to be proven or measured. . . It exists, and that is enough.
Only religion can lead to such evil.
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
Truths kindle light for truths.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror therefore and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and law of nature.
. . . Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand. . . Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.
Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.