Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits—the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself. The life of mere pleasure, of mere ease, is not in the end a satisfactory life, and, above all, it is not a life which offers a satisfactory solution to the problems of this world. The man who seeks in some way to do his duty, to work for the good of others, to be brave and wise and upright, he will find that the highest happiness comes, not to the man who does not shrink from hardship, from danger, or from bitter toil, but to the man who does not shrink from these things when duty calls him to face them.