The School for Husbands (L'École des maris) is a work by Molière (the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright who is often considered to be one of Western literature's great masters of comedy.

Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome.

Heidi is a novel for children written in 1880 which remains one of the most well-known pieces of Swiss literature.

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time.

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

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

Yoritomo-Tashi, whose precepts are presented in this book, ranks as one of the three greatest statesmen that Japan has ever produced.

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.

Imagination relates either to the past, the present or the future. On the one hand, it is the outright re-imagery in the mind's eye of past experiences.

It is a strange and almost amusing fact that there should be at the same time, on the part of the general public, such a general acceptance of the existence of personal magnetism.

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

One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond.

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.

As You Like It is truly one of Shakespeare's greatest romantic comedies.

Although originally classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, All's Well That Ends Well is now more commonly classified as one of his ambiguous problem plays, so called because they defy neat classification as either comedy or tragedy.

The Taming of the Shrew is perhaps one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays by modern standards.

King Lear is considered one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. King Lear decides to step down and divide his kingdom between his three daughters.

The Merchant of Venice is classed as one of Shakespeare's comedies, but is more often remembered for its dramatic characters and situations.