The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

The balance of power is the scale of peace.

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.