Household Management Assistant

Answers questions on Samuel Smiles's Self-Help: perseverance, energy, character and the lives of self-made people, quoting the 1859 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Emily Post's 1922 Etiquette: introductions, dinners, letters, weddings and everyday manners, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Epictetus's Enchiridion, the Stoic handbook on what is and is not in our control, quoting a public-domain English translation from Project Gutenberg and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays: First Series, including Self-Reliance, Compensation and Friendship, quoting the 1841 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.

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.