Man is just what he thinks himself to be; he is big in capacity if he thinks big thoughts; he is small if he thinks small thoughts.

Tom Sawyer Abroad sees Tom, Huck Finn and Jim board a futuristic hot air balloon bound for Africa, in a parody of the popular science fiction/travel adventure stories of the time.

As a working unit you are a kind of one-man business corporation made up of two departments, the mental and the physical.

A successful man is always asked - What is the secret of your success? People never ask a man who is a failure, What is the secret of your failure?

The sages of the centuries, each one tincturing their thought with their own soul essence, have united in telling us that, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this.

Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great man ever lived that was not a patriot in the highest and truest sense.

Tarzan of the Apes is Edgar Rice Burroughs' first novel in the series starring the man raised by apes.

The Return of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' second novel in the series starring the man raised by apes, and the story picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off.

Sir Joshua Reynolds laid down principles of art from the point of view of a man of genius who had made his power felt, and with the clear good sense which is the foundation of all work that looks upward and may hope to live.

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art.

A beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton.

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play.

The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse.

The Return of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' third novel in the series starring the man raised by apes. First serialized in 1914 in All-Story Cavalier magazine, it was published as a novel in 1916.

The Soul of Man under Socialism is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde.

When man can see through and understand what exists beneath the surface of his life, the expression of his deeper life will begin.

THERE is a power lying hidden in man, by the use of which he can rise to higher and better things.

AS a man chooses his coat for its wearing qualities or for the moment's passing whim, so does he choose his destiny.

A Russian prince returns to Saint Petersburg after a long absence in Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment for epilepsy.