The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.

It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft who have attained its highest honors and of their firm belief in the power of its teachings to purify the soul of men and raise them to a new dignity and to greater heights of spirituality and practical morality.