Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. All its emphasis rests upon two extremely simple and profound principles, love… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
As some of us prefer to put it, Masonry is not a religion but Religionnot a church but a worship, in which men of… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth,… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth,… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
