What a Young Man Ought to Know

Including rules like “See to it carefully that the bowels move regularly each morning,” the author details the intricacies of gonorrhea, syphilis, and choosing a wife:

If you are careful in the purchase of a horse, which you may dispose of if not found satisfactory, much more should you be judicious …. If you rush into marriage with haste, you will probably spend the rest of your life in a perpetual penance. Don’t fall in love.