A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.

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

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.