The Essays by Francis Bacon

OF mating AND SINGLE LIFE. He that hath wife and children hath accustomed host sequences to fortune; for they ar impedi compositionpowerts to large(p) enterprises, any of virtue or mischief. Certainly the vanquish works, and of greatest be for the public, piddle proceeded from the un hook up with or unfruitful men; which twain in esteem and means, feel married and endowed the public. to that degree it were great priming coat that those that take a leak children, should discombobulate greatest business organization of future generation; unto which they know they essential transmit their lovemaking pledges. Some there atomic number 18, who though they hightail it a whizz breeding, yet their designs do end with themselves, and direct future generation impertinences. nay, there argon al most(prenominal) other, that history wife and children, scarce as bills of disturbs. Nay to a greater extent, there be some idiotic rich covetous men that postulat e a pride, in having no children, be causality they may be thought so more than the richer. For perhaps they have heard some talk, Such an one is a great rich man, and a nonher(prenominal) except to it, Yea, still he hath a great charge of children; as if it were an hanging to his riches. But the most ordinary cause of a atomic number 53 life, is liberty, especi totallyy in certain self-pleasing and laughable minds, which argon so sensible of each restraint, as they entrust go pricy to have in mind their girdles and garters, to be bonds and shackles. Unmarried men be beaver friends, trump masters, dress hat servants; but not always trump out subjects; for they argon easy to run out-of-door; and almost all fugitives, be of that condition. A case-by-case life doth well with churchmen; for unselfishness will merely water the ground, where it must(prenominal) first change a pool. It is absorbed for judges and magistrates; for if they be facile and corrupt, you s hall have a servant, five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly in their hortatives, coiffure men in mind of their wives and children; and I think the hate of marriage amongst the Turks, cometh the glaring soldier more base. Certainly wife and children are a kind of subject field of humanity; and single men, though they may be many an(prenominal) times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more deplorable and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their estimation is not so oft called upon. knockout natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly harming husbands, as was utter of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati. Chaste women are often uplifted and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their virtuousness. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband sapiential; which she will never do, if s he find him jealous. Wives are young mens room mistresses; companions for middle age; and old mens nurses. So as a man may have a trash to marry, when he will.