A Good Conscience Is A

Is There Anything Men Take More Pains About Than To Render Themselves Unhappy?

An Autobiography Usually Reveals Nothing Bad About Its Writer Except His Memory.

1) Temperance... Drink Not To Elevation. (2) Silence... Avoid Trifling Conversations. (3) Order: Let All Your Things Have Their Places... (4) Resolution... Perform Without Fail What You Resolve. (5) Frugality... I.e. Waste Nothing. (6) Industry: Lose No Time; Be Always Employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use No Hurtful Deceit; Think Innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong None By Doing Injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid Extremes; Forbear Resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate No Uncleanliness In Body... (11) Tranquility: Be Not Disturbed At Trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.

I Resolve To Speak Ill Of No Man Whatever, Not Even In A Matter Of Truth; But Rather By Some Means Excuse The Faults I Hear Charged Upon Others, And Upon Proper Occasions Speak All The Good I Know Of Everybody.

To The Haranguers Of The Populace Among The Ancients, Succeed Among The Moderns Your Writers Of Political Pamphlets And News-papers, And Your Coffee-house Talkers.