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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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