Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.

It is good Manners to prefer them to whom we Speak before ourselves especially if they be above us with whom in no Sort we ought to begin.

When in Company, put not your Hands to any Part of the Body, not usually Discovered.

Be not immodest in urging your Friends to Discover a Secret.

When you meet with one of Greater Quality than yourself, Stop, and retire especially if it be at a Door or any Straight place to give way for him to Pass.

Labour to keep alive in your Breast that Little Spark of Celestial fire Called Conscience.

Let your Countenance be pleasant but in Serious Matters Somewhat grave.

When you see a Crime punished, you may be inwardly Pleased; but always show Pity to the Suffering Offender.

In writing or Speaking, give to every Person his due Title According to his Degree & the Custom of the Place.

Be not hasty to believe flying Reports to the Disparagement of any.

Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest Scoff at none although they give Occasion.

Do not laugh too loud or too much at any Public Spectacle.

Superfluous Compliments and all Affectation of Ceremony are to be avoided, yet where due they are not to be Neglected.

Turn not your Back to others especially in Speaking, Jog not the Table or Desk on which Another reads or writes, lean not upon any one.

Be no Flatterer, neither Play with any that delights not to be Played Withal.