Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.