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.

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

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

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.

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

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.