Albert Pike

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

the blind believers and the skeptics resemble each other, and are as far the one as the other from the eternal salvation.

To organize Anarchy, is the problem which the revolutionists have and will eternally have to resolve.

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

All eyes do not see alike. Even the visible creation is not, for all who look upon it, of one form and one color.

All hypotheses scientifically probable are the last gleams of the twilight of knowledge, or its last shadows. Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

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.

Duty is with us ever; and evermore forbids us to be idle. To work with the hands or brain, according to our acquirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.

Nature owns no man who is not also a Martyr.

Labor is the truest emblem of God, the Architect and Eternal Maker; noble Labor, which is yet to be the King of this Earth, and sit on the highest Throne.

Genuine work alone, done faithfully, is eternal, even as the Almighty Founder and Worldbuilder Himself.

Care not for returns and results; but see only what there is to do, and do it, leaving the results to God!

All that is done and said and thought and suffered upon the Earth combine together, and flow onward in one broad resistless current toward those great results to which they are determined by the will of God.

despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer.

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

When, or who shall gather it, it does not in the least concern us to know. It is our business to plant the seed.

Except when the sluggish depths of the Human Mind are hroken up and tossed as with a storm, when at the appointed time a great Reformer comes, and a new Faith springs up and grows with supernatural energy, the progress of Truth is slower …

Knowing the slow processes by which the Deity brings about great results, he does not expect to reap as well as sow, in a single lifetime. It is the inflexible fate and noblest destiny, with rare exceptions, of the great and good, to work, …

That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

To plant the trees that, after we are dead, shall shelter our children, is as natural as to love the shade of those our fathers planted.

Most men desire to leave some work behind them that may outlast their own day and brief generation.

The true Mason labors for the benefit of those that are to come after him, and for the advancement and improvement of his race.