"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 use ...

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 paintings, ...

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 The Odyssey. ...

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

John Henry was born with a hammer in his hand. The unusually large and strapping baby grew up to be an ...

"A Real Man" From A Heap o' Livin', 1916 By Edgar A. Guest Men are of two kinds, and he Was of the kind ...

"The Value of Doing" From The Woodcraft Manual for Boys, 1923 By Ernest Thompson Seton Our grandfathers ...

While Stoicism is an ancient philosophy, it’s experiencing a bit of a resurgence in our modern world. ...

While the first manned flight took place in 1903, it wouldn’t be until WWI that aeronautical advances were ...