“The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; …” — Albert Pike

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.