Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.

The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.

O SON OF MAN! I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.

O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.