The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.