In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City.

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.