Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now remains to be my earnest wish & prayer, that the Citizens of the United States could make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before them.

Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality.

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.