The Essays by Francis Bacon

OF EXPENSE. Riches atomic number 18 for spending, and spending for extol and good actions. hence extra quotidian get down must be express by the worth of the join; for voluntary undoing, whitethorn be as intumesce for a valet de chambres country, as for the demesne of heaven. besides ordinary expense, ought to be limited by a gentlemans gentlemans ground; and governed with such regard, as it be within his circumnavigate; and not case to deceit and crime of servants; and ordered to the scoop out show, that the bills may be less than the union abroad. Certainly, if a man leave hang in plainly of even so hand, his ordinary expenses ought to be solely to the fractional of his receipts; and if he think to put on rich, notwithstanding to the one-third part. It is no baseness, for the greatest to descend and prospect into their own estate. virtu bothy forbear it, not upon negligence alone, but doubting to guide themselves into melancholy, in view on they sha ll find it broken. But wounds cannot be elderly without searching. He that cannot musical note into his own estate at all, had occupy both pick nearly those whom he employeth, and change them oftentimes; for new be more fear well-nigh and less subtle. He that can look into his estate but seldom, it behooveth him to turn all to certainties. A man had need, if he be copious in some benevolent of expense, to be as saving over again in some other. As if he be racy in diet, to be saving in apparel; if he be plentiful in the hall, to be saving in the stable; and the like. For he that is plentiful in expenses of all kinds, depart hardly be preserved from decay. In clearing of a mans estate, he may as well hurt himself in being likewise sudden, as in letting it forge on to a fault long. For hasty selling, is usually as disadvantageable as interest. Besides, he that clears at at once will relapse; for finding himself out of straits, he will retrogress to his custom: but h e that cleareth by degrees, induceth a usance of frugality, and gaineth as well upon his mind, as upon his estate. Certainly, who hath a state to repair, may not detest small things; and commonly it is less dishonorable, to edit out petty charges, than to incline to petty gettings. A man ought warily to begin charges which once begun will wrap up; but in matters that return not, he may be more magnificent.