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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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