Masonry Quotes

With a building of this kind, because it's masonry, it is more susceptible to weather than maybe a steel frame building, because steel is not as affected by rain and cold in same way that rock and concrete is. - John Ziegler

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people. - Thomas Carlyle

There is no doubt in my mind that Masonry is the cornerstone of America. - Dave Thomas

The secret of masonry is to keep a secret. - Joseph Smith, Jr.

The religion, then, of Masonry is pure Theism. - Albert Mackey

The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian. - Albert Mackey

The grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race. - George Washington

The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge. - Mark Twain