Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence.

Influence is not government.