There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

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.

Chrétien de Troyes' Four Arthurian Romances continued and expanded on existing Arthurian legends, but began the Arthurian Romance genre, so popular in Medieval literature.

From the author: My aim, after summarizing the sociology of the Chinese as a prerequisite to the understanding of their ideas and sentiments, and dealing as fully as possible, consistently with limitations of space.

Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection.

The Debaucher, Jason Camlot's third collection of poetry, walks an oscillating lyrical tightrope between realms of cosmopolitan sophistication and ribald hilarity.

The chief glory of America is, that it is the country in which genius and industry find their speediest and surest reward.

The education of the will is the object of our existence, says Emerson.

Mildred Mann was a bestselling author and teacher of the New Thought Movement.

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.

Horatio W. Dresser was one of the most prolific writers of the New Thought Movement.

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.

The Emerson System treats the voice as a natural reporter of the individual, constantly emphasizing the tendency of the voice to express appropriately any mental concept or state of feeling.

The Country of the Blind and Other Stories brings together thirty-three of H. G. Wells' science fiction and fantasy short stories which were previously published separately in a variety of periodicals.

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

Buddhism is a religion which must be viewed from many angles.

The demand for this book has come from the students in the class room who have listened to these lectures on the Great Doctrines of the Bible.

Nothing comes amiss in the great business of preparation, if it has been thoroughly well learned.

The book called 'The Consolation of Philosophy' was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholar's familiar companion.

There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.