Justice.—Wrong no one by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Moderation.—Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries.
Cleanliness.—Suffer no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
Tranquillity.—Be not disturbed about trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Humility.—Imitate Jesus Christ.
EMPLOYMENT OF TIME.
The celebrated Lord Coke wrote the subjoined couplet, which he religiously observed in the distribution of time:—
Six hours to sleep,—to law’s grave studies six,—
Four spent in prayer,—the rest to nature fix.
But Sir William Jones, a wiser economist of the fleeting hours of life, amended the sentence in the following lines:—