The aim of literary study is not to amuse the hours of leisure.

The mind can only be conquered by regular meditation, by deciding beforehand.

I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater, and have suffered.

Unto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher.

The Light of Asia, subtitled The Great Renunciation, weaves through its poetic verses the life.

Philosopher, logician, mathematician, social reformer and historian, the renowned Nobel Prize winner.

Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).

Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful playwrights of the Victorian era.

Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).

Charles Wesley Emerson's book The Evolution of Expression was a central text in the Monroe.

The foundation of all true knowledge of God must be a clear mental apprehension.

Wrong thinking produces inharmony in our body, which in turn produces sickness.

A Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography.

A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter.

Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words.

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent social theorist of the Victorian era.

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist.

American novelist and designer Edith Wharton traveled to Morocco after the end of World War I.