Sometimes I think it would be easier if all those lessons our parents tried to teach us had “taken.”  Simplicity can be so comfortable. As we go about our daily chores how would you like to have simple, clear, frank rules to follow?  If so, Wesley is your man.  He had his rules and he was more than willing to propose them to others. 
    In a letter to a man in Armagh, Ireland, where Wesley had preached, we see Wesley giving advice and rules for the conduct of his daily affairs.  Consider these rules he suggests:

1. If you regard your health, touch no supper, but a little milk, or water-gruel. This will entirely, by the blessing of God, secure you from being nervous.
2. Be steadily serious. There is no country upon earth where this is more necessary than Ireland.
3. In every town, visit all you can from house to house.
4. Avoid all familiarity [probably meaning physical contact] with women. This is deadly poison both to them and you. You cannot be too wary in this respect.
5. The chief matter of your conversation, as well as your preaching, should doubtless be the weightier matters of the law.

Then Wesley goes into a series of smaller, more personal matters:
1. Be active, be diligent; avoid all laziness, sloth, indolence.
2. Be cleanly. In this let the Methodists take pattern by the Quakers.
3. Whatever clothes you have, let them be whole; no rents, no tatters, no rags. These are a scandal to either man or woman, being another fruit of vile laziness.
4. Clean yourselves of lice. These are a proof both of uncleanness and laziness: Take pains in this. Do not cut off your hair; but clean it, and keep it clean. 
5. Cure yourself and your family of the itch: A spoonful of brimstone will cure you.
6. Use no tobacco, unless prescribed by a Physician.
7. Use no snuff, unless prescribed by a Physician.
8. Touch no dram [a small portion of whiskey]. It is liquid fire. It is a sure, though slow, poison. It saps the very springs of life.
    Wesley had his rules and he was not timid about telling his preachers about them. Most any question about personal or public conduct can be answered by one of his rules.