There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.