Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.—­Spurgeon.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.—­Thomas A kempis.

Every one is the poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not.—­MANILIUS.

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.  —­St. Clement.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.—­Fielding.

War.—­War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love; and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.—­Channing.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.—­Beecher.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.—­James A. Garfield.

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.—­Colton.

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.—­Brougham.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.—­Washington.

War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous sweet is the smell of powder.—­Longfellow.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any fondness for war, and I have never advocated it except as a means of peace.  —­U.S.  Grant.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.—­C.J.  Fox.

Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war, you would pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing again.  —­Wellington.

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye.  When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.—­Southey.

Waste.—­Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is.  Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined.  It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.—­Dr. Johnson.

Wealth.—­Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, but wants more.—­Colton.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief.  The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.—­L’ESTRANGE.