The Young Man's Guide

Section I. Importance of having a high standard of action.--The young should determine to rise. We may usually become what we desire to be. An anecdote. Studying the lives of em...

Section II. Importance of Integrity.--Thieves and robbers respect it. What it is. Many kinds of dishonesty. 1. Concealing the market price. 2. Misrepresenting it. 3. Selling uns...

Section I. On Gaming.--Every gambler a robber. The _first_ player. Gaming _produces_ nothing. Corrupts manners. Discourages industry. Opinions of Locke and others. What tremendo...

Section II. Rules for Conversation.--Rules of profiting from it. Hear others. Do not interrupt them. Avoid those who use vulgar or profane language. Speak late yourself. Avoid g...

Section I. Female Society, in general.--Both sexes should be educated together. What we are to think of those who despise female society. How it polishes and improves us. 230-234

Section III. Female Qualifications for Matrimony.--1. _Moral Excellence._ 2. _Common Sense._ 3. _Desire for improvement._ 4. _Fondness for children._ Miserable condition of a hu...

Section II. Licentiousness.--Most common in cities. New Orleans. Hint to legislators. A horrid picture. Not wholly imaginary. Avoid the first erring step. Example of premature d...

To those who have carefully examined the introduction and table of contents, I am now prepared to give the following general direction; _Fix upon a high standard of character._...

Young men are usually in haste to commence business for themselves. This is an evil, and one which appears to me to be increasing. Let me caution my readers to be on their guard...

Even Voltaire asserts that 'every gambler is, has been, or will be a robber.' Few practices are more ancient, few more general, and few, if any, more pernicious than gaming. An...

'Your eyes open, your thoughts close, will go safe through the world,' is a maxim which some have laid down; but it savors rather too much of selfishness. 'You may learn from ot...

No young man is fully aware how much he is indebted to female influence in forming his character. Happy for him if his mother and sisters were his principal companions in infanc...

Matrimony is a subject of high importance and interest. It is _important_, because it was among the earliest institutions of the great Creator; because it has always existed in...

In nineteen cases out of twenty, of illicit conduct, there is perhaps, no seduction at all; the passion, the absence of virtue, and the crime, being all mutual. But there are ca...