A prophet has is about to board a ship home after 12 years in exile, when he is stopped by a group of people.

Prentice Mulford helped to found the New Thought movement, his book Thoughts are Things becoming a guiding light to this new way of seeing the world.

The Ideal Made Real is written by the founding New Thought leader and teacher Christian D. Larson, who was a prolific author of metaphysical and self-help books.

The Mastery of Destiny embodies New Thought writer James Allen's teachings that our thoughts can be used to increase our capabilities and to create our lives as we desire them to be.

Henry Thomas Hamblin was one of the founding fathers of the New Thought Movement.

In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.

The success of a fairy book, I am convinced, depends on the due admixture of the comic and the romantic: Grimm and Asbjörnsen knew this secret, and they alone.

We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies (For some recent views on fairies and tales about fairies, see Notes.)

In America, in 1770, a well-defined aristocracy held control.

Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

Nations yet to come will look back upon his history as to some grand and supernatural romance.

Two years before the mast were but an episode in the life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

John Dewey's Democracy and Education.

Execute your resolutions immediately. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

From the author: I find the small acts within my observation interesting enough to merit writing.

Twenty-four-year-old Jane Marshall is unattractive, poor, struggling to educate herself.

To summon a dead religion from its forgotten grave and to make it tell its story, would require an enchanter's wand.

Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry.

The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams.

It goes without saying that this book is to be enjoyed with a dram or two of your favorite single malt. Don't have one? Don't worry, you will.