The great difference between telling and reading is that the teller is free; the reader is bound.

It has been said that Nothing Succeeds Like Success. What is Success?

The aim and design of conversation is, therefore, pleasure.

Expression is one of the necessary elements of human development.

This author-physician's cure for nerves vividly recalls the simplicity of method.

For those who would aspire to the gift of pure vision, and in whom the faculty is striving.

Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire's novel Zadig, or The Book of Fate skillfully weaves the story.

Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop.

The New Atlantis is Sir Francis Bacon's creation of an ideal land.

The City of the Sun is an important early utopian work by Italian philosopher Tommaso Campanella.

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents was H. G. Wells' first collection of short stories.

Dubbed The Wickedest Man In the World, Aleister Crowley is best known for his occult writings.

Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a broad comparative study.

The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The comical Wheels of Chance was written in 1896 at the height of the golden age of the bicycle.

The mind is one thing - a unit. All the various faculties act together constantly.

Utilitarianism is philosopher John Stuart Mill's defense and advocacy of utilitarian ethics.

John Stuart Mill used Considerations on Representative Government to call for reforms to Parliament and voting,

John Stuart Mill (1806 1873) was a great liberal thinker of the nineteenth century.

John Stuart Mill's 1869 essay The Subjection of Women argues for equality between the sexes.