But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

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.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.