People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents. - Andrew Carnegie

I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends.

Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious — being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so — still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert