"You are a traveller in little things--in something very small--which takes you into the villages and hamlets, where you meet and converse with small farmers ...

In this companion piece to The Life Triumphant, the bestselling author of the inspirational classic As a Man Thinketh continues his life's goal of revealing ...

Presented here in its original 12-volume series, the Personal Power Books are a set of self-help books designed to be carefully studied to develop personal ...

The course of life to which Mary and her little retinue were doomed, was in the last degree secluded and lonely, varied only as the weather permitted or ...

A pioneer of studies of the culture and people of India, Max Müller was one of the most popular, most respected, and most influential thinkers on ...

"The chiefs are armed with muskets," said he, "and our balloon is too easy a mark for them." "Would a hole make us fall?" asked Joe. "Not immediately; ...

One of the foremost figures of Western intellectual thought in the late 19th century, John Stuart Mill offered up examinations of human rights, personal ...

It was now my only consideration how to die like a Christian, and with proper fortitude. I felt, indeed, a strong temptation to avoid the scaffold by committing ...

It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343–c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. ...

One of the most remarkable philosophers of the early 20th century, Henri Bergson attempted to blend the new understandings of biological sciences with ...