October 8: Build like a true workman

Build like a true workman. If a person is to build up a successful, strong and exemplary life, a life that will stoutly resist the fiercest storms of adversity and temptation, it must be framed on a few simple, undeviating moral principles. Four of these principles are Justice, Rectitude, Sincerity and Kindness.

These four ethical truths are to the making of a life what the four lines of a square are to the building of a house. If a person ignores them and thinks to obtain success and happiness by injustice, trickery and selfishness, they are in the position of a builder who imagines they can build a strong and durable habitation while ignoring the relative arrangement of mathematical lines, and they will, in the end, obtain only disappointment and failure.

Working in harmony with the fundamental laws of the universe.