Editor's note: This is a guest article from Will Whitson.  "[He was] as honest as you can expect a ...

From The Business of Life By Frank Crane Published 1916 Danger includes War, Crime, and Adventure. It ...

"Display of Energy" From The Successful Man in His Manifold Relations to Life, 1886 By J. Clinton ...

Seneca, Letters No one is so ignorant as not to know that we must at some time die; nevertheless, when one ...

"I Don't Know" From the Business of Life, 1916 By Frank Crane One of the healthiest exercises for the ...

  "Crippled for Life" From Climbing Manward, 1924 By Frank H. Cheley I once crippled a ...

"Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to ...

  Have you been stuck in a rut for awhile? Have you been there so long that you feel like there’s no ...

From The Simple Life, 1903 By Charles Wagner In its dreams, man's ambition embraces vast limits, but it is ...

Many know of the epic race in 1910 between Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott to be the first to reach ...

  After WWII and before the Korean War, America experienced a short period free from the fear of war and ...

 Do you sometimes wish you had a cabinet of counselors you could go to for advice and insight on how to ...

  Leonardo da Vinci has become the ultimate archetype of the creative genius. Besides his famous ...

Editor's note: After the Battle of Bull Run, Ulysses S. Grant was appointed colonel of a regiment of ...

"The Boy Who Can't" From Boy's Life, c. 1920 By F. J. P. Hey, fellows, come closer, let each of us ...

"Success and Happiness" From The Successful Man in His Manifold Relations to Life, 1886 By J. Clinton ...

"The Greatest Danger in the World" From Climbing Manward, 1924 By Frank H. Cheley Every moment that we ...

A Letter to Harrison Blake March 27, 1848 By Henry David Thoreau I do believe in simplicity. It is ...

  I love many of the classic myths and poems of ancient Greece. My favorite, though, is ...

"My Daily Desire" By Thomas Dekker To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the ...