Enthusiasm and sanity must be united to carry us safely forward.

Tradition and custom will count for less either in maintaining or in preventing what is evil.

Many old modes of thought, many old habits which checked us in the downward as well as hindered us in the upward path, will have been destroyed by the fire through which we have been passing.

We need a conscious plan more than ever for rebuilding and good workmanship in execution detail by detail.
Image the whole, then execute the parts.
Fancy the fabric Quite ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz, Ere mortar dab brick.
Then take the trowel and see that brick by brick each course is truly laid.
But we are not building a new city on unoccupied ground; there are some foundations truly laid which have withstood the fire and storm and which cannot be disturbed without both risk and useless toil.

There are still edifices standing to which time has given a beauty and tradition a sanctity which newer creations cannot possess.