One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

He hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impropriety and folly. Added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.