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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

When a man does all he can though it Succeeds not well blame not him that did it.

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.

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