Table of Contents
Introduction to the Transaction Edition xiii
Preface xli
1 Two Sides of Life 1
2 Helping Others 7
3 Some of the Rocks Ahead 13
4 On Influencing by Example 19
5 The Virtue of Simplicity 23
6 Have You Done Your Best? 29
7 Don't Be Discouraged 35
8 On Getting a Home 39
9 Calling Things by Their Right Names 43
10 European Impressions 49
11 The Value of System in Home Life 55
12 What Will Pay 59
13 Education that Educates 65
14 The Importance of Being Reliable 71
15 The Highest Education 77
16 Unimproved Opportunities 83
17 Keeping Your Word 91
18 Some Lessons of the Hour 97
19 The Gospel of Service 103
20 The Negro Conference 109
21 What Is to Be Our Future? 115
22 Some Great Little Things 121
23 To Would-Be Teachers 127
24 The Cultivation of Stable Habits 131
25 What You Ought to Do 135
26 Individual Responsibility 141
27 Getting on in the World 147
28 Each One His Part 151
29 What Would Father and Mother Say? 157
30 Object Lessons 163
31 Substance vs. Shadow 167
32 Character as Shown in Dress 171
33 Sing the Old Songs 175
34 Getting Down to Mother Earth 181
35 A Penny Saved 187
36 Growth 195
37 Last Words 199
