Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

Laws without morals are in vain.

Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

Beauty and folly are old companions.