Timeless Wisdom

The Evening Examination: An ancient nightly practice for an untroubled mind

On Growing Old Without Growing Cold: Keeping warmth, wonder and usefulness in later years

Letters We Never Send: The old practice of writing to settle the heart

The Quiet Virtues: Courtesy, punctuality, tidiness, and other unglamorous strengths

Old Roads, Good Counsel: What proverbs still know about living well

The Long Habit of Patience: Why the slowest virtue still wins

A Day Well Divided: The old art of giving each hour its own work

On Keeping One's Word: The quiet power of being someone people can count on

The Uses of Solitude: What time alone gives that nothing else can

The Shortest Lessons: One hundred proverbs and the lives that proved them

On Growing Old Well: What the wisest voices said about the later years

The Stoic Pocketbook: Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus for ordinary mornings

Letters to a Young Friend: Counsel from history's great letter writers, gathered and retold

The Friendship Shelf: What thinkers from Aristotle to Emerson knew about friends

The Art of Enough: Voices across the ages on simplicity and contentment

Courage in Small Doses: Stories of quiet bravery from history's margins

Words for Hard Days: A gathered anthology for grief, setback, and starting again

The Simple Life

Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

The school and society

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Franklin's Way to Wealth; or, "Poor Richard Improved"

The Power of Truth: Individual Problems and Possibilities

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life

The Pleasures of Life

The Plain Man and His Wife

Have you an educated heart?

Healthful Sports for Young Ladies

The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni / The Oldest Books in the World

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims