It is better, even for nations, to have less and have it honestly, to possess less and live in a world safe for each generation and its posterity. When the hearts of men are right, our economic systems will also be right. Greater moderation in many things would leave us a healthier and happier race, to say nothing of what it would do for our bank accounts. Certainly, before buying a thing, one should honestly ask himself whether he needs it. He should, likewise, give himself an honest answer. The poor we always have with us, but many of them are with us unnecessarily.---Money is made to spend, but the financially independent are those who have learned to spend it wisely. The budget system is a desirable plan in the home of wealth; it is a helpful thing in the home of moderate circumstances; but it is a necessity in the home where takes place an occasional battle with want. Moreover, the consumer has the last word in every argument. He holds the purse-strings, and when he is tired of talking, he can stop buying. It does not bode well when he conceives the feeling that undue difficulty attaches to trying to exist on the planet. Education The purpose of education is not to qualify one for getting through life on a minimum of toil.---The test of learning is service. As knowledge becomes a matter of action, it becomes a matter of purpose, ideal, and character. The years teach us that the only test of the correctness of any educational method is its result in terms of life. The growing life most easily adapts itself to newly discovered fact. One may take a vine and train it in any direction. One may take a young life and make of it what he will. A great many parents are wondering these days why their children did not grow up to be good. A man’s education can not be measured by what he has committed to memory, but by what he has learned by heart. Education is no more what one knows than what he is. The testimony of opinion is uncertain. The testimony of experience is final and unanswerable. Arguments on the existence of love do not count with one who loves. The thing experienced demands no proof by logical processes. Humanity Humanity is the center of all creation, and the proper object of all our striving. Humanity knows no dividing line, and whoever lays them down will simply sow the seeds of sorrow and trouble. Despite all the cheap ways in which the world indulges, its real hunger is for genuine worth, unveneered culture, real character. When one has made a living, he has not necessarily lived.---Earth and its physical necessities are only the stage and the setting for the drama. The play itself lies beyond them and is separate from them. The world is ready for anything that spells deliverance, and nothing will deliver humanity save rightness of heart.