4. Resolution.—Resolve to perform what you ought: perform, without fail, what you resolve.
5. Frugality.—Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; that is, waste nothing.
6. Industry.—Lose no time: be always employed in something useful: cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. Sincerity.—Use no hurtful deceit: think innocently and justly: and if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice.—Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. Moderation.—Avoid extremes: forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. Cleanliness.—Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11. Tranquility.—Be not disturbed at trifles, nor at accidents common or unavoidable.
10. To acquire a habit of practising these virtues, he determined to give a week's strict attention to each of them in succession. Thus, in the first week, he took care to avoid even the slightest offence against temperance, and strictly marked every fault in a little book he kept for that purpose. This book he continued to keep for a great number of years; till, in the pressure of public business, he was obliged to give it up entirely.
11. "It is well," he wrote in his old age, "my posterity should be informed that to this little artifice their ancestor owed the constant felicity of his life, down to his seventy-ninth year, in which this is written. What reverses may attend the remainder is in the hand of Providence: but if they arrive, the reflection on past happiness enjoyed ought to help his bearing them with more resignation."