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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 Tedious in Discourse or in reading unless you find the Company pleased therewith.

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.

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

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

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.

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