Say nothing about others that you would not have others say about you.
Be severe toward yourself; be kind to your fellow-man.
Do not give advice that you cannot follow.
Do not thank God for what man does.
Serve neither God nor Mammon, but humanity alone.
Do not try to be perfect as a "Father in heaven," but try to be better
than you yourself are.
Seek first to improve the earth, and heaven will be of less consequence.
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Let us not forget that men speak according to the measure of their
knowledge and light, and that a superior enlightenment is a higher
authority.
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History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard
to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of
civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its
credulity it is the foe of enlightenment.