COMME^X'EME^•T " EXERCISES 375 



things to do. Dwell not so much upon the wages as upon the health and 

 knowledge and skill to do more and better work. The rewards will take 

 oare of themselves more safely than in the case of the man who spends 

 -SO much energy in bringing about an increase in wages that he has little 

 life and pride in the prosecution of his work. 



There is wealth which is not measured in gold, and yet is wealth worth 

 the having. At the end of life some men have plenty of money and 

 no culture of mind and heart; and some have culture and no money. 

 But there is substantial wealth in both. They should supplement each 

 other. It is pitiable to have culture and lack the means to gratify it; 

 and it is lamentable to have money and so lack in culture that you do 

 not know what to do with it and hold it like a miser or spend it like a 

 fool. It is infinitely better to so manage matters that you are likely to 

 have wealth of both kinds. 



You wall not understand me as expressing indifference to the ac- 

 cumulation of property. Quite the contrary is true. One who cares not 

 for this, who fails to do what he can to provide for his needs when 

 his earning power shall be gone, lacks in that ordinary foresight so 

 common in the race that the absence of it classes one with the defectives. 

 What I am saying is that the way to secure that provision is to assume 

 the risks which may be balanced by your personal endowments, and 

 that the way to be sure of being competent to enjoy the accumulations 

 of a lifetime is to keep the joints lubricated with the oil of fellows-feeling, 

 ^tart out with more energy than conservatism so that your whole life 

 taken together will be an even one, for the time will come when you will 

 have more of conservatism than of energy. Let old men talk about an 

 abundance of caution; you think of what will result from an abundance 

 of action. Keep the dollar in your minds, but put as much thought upon 

 enriching your minds and your souls, upon living creditably and stimulat- 

 ing the common energy of the people among whom you live, as upon ac- 

 cumulating in your pockets. Put your energies into earning rather than 

 into hoarding; and, as you earn, spend your money in ways that will 

 keep the juices in your body and put serenity and grace enough into 

 your later years to make them worth the living. 



Let the will balance the emotions. If we throttle the feelings we are 

 little more than mechanism refined; if we allow them to run loose we 

 defeat our own desires and make of ourselves a laughing-stock. We 

 are to nourish and restrain them. He who lacks integrity of feeling 

 lacks rightness and effectiveness of action. It is spirit that lifts the in- 

 dividual and drives the world; but it is spirit that is enriched by intel- 

 ligence and controlled by the will which makes headway and gains re- 

 spect. 



Bear disappointment with composure, and affliction with fortitude. The 

 noise one makes does not measure the sorrow he suffers. Let the hatreds 

 be governed by a short statute of limitations. After a hard blow 

 straighten up as soon as possible and readjust yourselves to the new 

 conditions as quickly as you can. Carry your steadiness with you and 

 do not leave your civility and courtesy at home when you move among 

 people and enter the activities of the world. 



Think now and then of the point of equipoise between personal inde- 

 pendence and good citizenship. "Independence" seems to be bred and 

 born in us. The verv word has a rythmic, musical sound to the .Vmeri- 



