Albert Pike (December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891) was an American attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason. Read full biography of 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.
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting... →
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound... →
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Will is the dynamic soul-force.
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor... →
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank... →
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the... →
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.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike (December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891) was an American attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason.