I’d like to share a few essays that I found quite insightful when I first read them and have remained so. These essays deal with a diverse set of issues covering a time period of about three hundred years – the earliest among these was published in and the most recent one was published in . I found these essays through different sources that I came across during my reading.

1. Human Nature by William Lyon Phelps

2. Self-reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. How To Do What You Love and What You’ll Wish You’d Known by Paul Graham

4. How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett

5. On Idleness