“3. Never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can.
“4. Never to do anything out of revenge.
“5. Never to speak evil of any one, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account, except for some real good.
“6. In narrations, never to speak anything but the pure and simple truth.
“7. Never to utter anything that is sportive or matter of laughter on the Lord’s day.
“8. That I will so live as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
“9. Never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
“10. To think much on all occasions of my own dying, and of the common circumstances which attend death.
“11. That I may not be surprised by death, I will endeavor to carry with me the habitual recollection that it may come at any moment.