War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. – Albert Pike
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. – Albert Pike

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. – Albert Pike
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. – Albert Pike
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. – Albert Pike
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. – Albert Pike
It sometimes happens at the end of a dinner, when jokes and walnuts are cracked together, that the paternity of some trite quotation is put in question, and at once the wit of the whole company is set wool-gathering. – Frederic Swartwout Cozzens, “Phrases and Filberts,” Sayings, Wise and Otherwise