For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this se….

The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and anot….

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers..

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge..

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of re….

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The h….

I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of its origin, of i….

There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves i….

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools..

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men..

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper ….