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13 Above all things I beg and entreat you to accustom yourself in the conduct of life to be guided by judgment, and not by impulse. If you have made any mistake, consider at once whether you can set it right in any way, or diminish the evil; that you will do better if you do it quietly than in an excited state. If there is any remedy, apply it; if not, what good can come of anger or sorrow, except that you double the evil by your own fault.
14 I beseech you by our friendship to let nothing be more important to you than life and health. If you can keep your fortune without loss of health, do so by all means; if not, you lose more than you gain, when you save your fortune by risking your health or quiet.
15 Live with your good wife in such a way, that she may love you not only as a bedfellow, and not only love but respect you. And so confide in her, as to make her a partner with yourself, in all the things that relate either to household affairs or to the enjoyment of life. Maintain your authority over your household, but in such a fashion, that domestic familiarity may be flavored with courtesy.
From a Letter to Peter Gillis
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