Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.