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

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

Be not Tedious in Discourse or in reading unless you find the Company pleased therewith.

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 not immodest in urging your Friends to Discover a Secret.

Think before you Speak pronounce not imperfectly nor bring out your Words too hastily but orderly & distinctly.

Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to See if you be well Decked, if your Shoes fit well if your Stockings sit neatly, and Clothes handsomely.

In visiting the Sick, do not Presently play the Physician if you be not Knowing therein.

If any one come to Speak to you while you are Sitting Stand up though he be your Inferior, and when you Present Seats let it be to every one according to his Degree.

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.

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

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

A Man ought not to value himself of his Achievements, or rare Qualities of wit; much less of his riches Virtue or Kindred.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

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