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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre.

Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies.

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

One world's richest and best-known people in his day, Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneering innovator of mass production.

A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.