The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger
times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family,
so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy
children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better
were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall
either perish or remain a shame to thy name.
-- Sir Walter Raleigh
