Temperance is that due restraint upon our affections and passions which renders the body tame and governable and frees the mind from the allurements of vice.

This virtue should be the constant practice of every Mason, as he is thereby taught to avoid excess or the contracting of any licentious or vicious habit.

Fortitude

Fortitude is that noble and steady purpose of mind, whereby we are enabled to undergo any pain, peril, or danger when prudentially deemed expedient.

This virtue is equally distant from rashness and cowardice; and, like the former, should be deeply impressed upon the mind of every Mason.

Prudence

Prudence teaches us to regulate our lives and actions agreeably to the dictate of reason, and is that habit by which we wisely judge and prudentially determine, on all things relative to our present, as well as our future happiness.

This virtue should be the peculiar characteristic of every Mason, not only for the government of his conduct while in the Lodge, but also when abroad in the world. 

Justice

Justice is that standard, or boundary of right, which enables us to render to every man his just due, without distinction.

This virtue is not only consistent with Divine and human laws, but it is the very cement and support of civil society; and as justice in a great measure, constitutes the real, good man, so should it be the practice of every Mason never to deviate from the minutest principles thereof.