–it is not conducive to the best interests of the family circle, besides it makes your wife lonesome.

–smoking is not manly.  If he loves you he will quit it.  Decent men never chew.

and is not willing to work–a girl who does not work and make herself useful, never is very loving, kind, and affectionate.

–not even suggestive enough to produce a blush upon the cheek of virtue.

every person who endeavors to make a display of himself, who endeavors to impress upon the minds of other persons the fact that he is a little smarter, a little above them, universally is looked upon by them as a fool.

on the best terms with the inhabitants of palaces, with the faces familiar to kings, aristocrats and potentates.

that you may have a chance to steal a hundred.

–tattling is the rubbish, weeds, thistles, thorns, etc., of speech, and is detrimental to good morals.

–make your evening meal the largest one.

do not want anything except poverty–wold not have a thousand acres of good land if you were to give it to them–they would trade it for a saloon, and then give the saloon away.  Hundreds of times the author has asked the question: “Why do you not save your money and buy you a little home?” and almost invariably received the following answer:  “What do I want with a home?  I wouldn’t be bothered with one.”