God Gave Them [the Discoveries] To Me;

We Have Become Ninety-nine Percent Money Mad. The Method Of Living At Home Modestly And Within Our Income, Laying A Little By Systematically For The Proverbial Rainy Day Which Is Due To Come, Can Almost Be Listed Among The Lost Arts.

Unkindness To Anything Means An Injustice To That Thing. If I Am Unkind To You I Do You An Injustice, Or Wrong You In Some Way. On The Other Hand, If I Try To Assist You In Every Way That I Can To Make A Better Citizen And In Every Way To Do My Very Best For You, I Am Kind To You. The Above Principles Apply With Equal Force To The Soil. The Farmer Whose Soil Produces Less Every Year, Is Unkind To It In Some Way; That Is, He Is Not Doing By It What He Should; He Is Robbing It Of Some Substance It Must Have, And He Becomes, Therefore, A Soil Robber Rather Than A Progressive Farmer.

Learn To Do Common Things Uncommonly Well; We Must Always Keep In Mind That Anything That Helps Fill The Dinner Pail Is Valuable.

Anything Will Give Up Its Secrets If You Love It Enough. Not Only Have I Found That When I Talk To The Little Flower Or To The Little Peanut They Will Give Up Their Secrets, But I Have Found That When I Silently Commune With People They Give Up Their Secrets Also – If You Love Them Enough.

A Life That Stood Out As A Gospel Of Self-forgetting Service. He Could Have Added Fortune To Fame But Caring For Neither He Found Happiness And Honor In Being Helpful To The World. The Centre Of His World Was The South Where He Was Born In Slavery Some 79 Years Ago And Where He Did His Work As A Creative Scientist.