Self-Made Merchant Letters Assistant

Answers questions on Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan: the state of nature, the social contract and sovereign power, quoting the 1651 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: Ishmael, Queequeg, Captain Ahab and the hunt for the white whale, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Augustine's Confessions: the stolen pears, his conversion in the garden and his reflections on time and memory, quoting Edward Bouverie Pusey's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on the Dhammapada, the Buddhist verses on the mind, anger, craving and the path, quoting F. Max Müller's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on the Bhagavad Gita: Arjuna's dilemma, duty, action without attachment and devotion, quoting Sir Edwin Arnold's verse translation (The Song Celestial) from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Francis Bacon's Essays: short counsels on studies, truth, friendship, ambition, revenge and other topics, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.