Self-help, self-development or self-improvement, is a self-guided effort to improve oneself, economically, intellectually, or emotionally—using the mental, physical and spiritual resources available to oneself. There are many different self-help movements and approaches and each has its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases leaders. Often people with identical interests or practicing similar professions come together and form self-help groups. These groups provide friendship, emotional support, experiential knowledge, identity, meaningful roles, and a sense of belonging to the people who may be searching for solutions to the problems they face. Those who help themselves by learning about their problems and finding solutions to them can be said to exemplify self-help, while self-help groups may accomplish the same objectives through collective means. The actual phrase "self-help" was originally used in a legal context, referring to the doctrine that a party in a dispute has the right to use lawful means on their own initiative to defend themselves and remedy a wrong. Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) published the first self-consciously personal-development "self-help" book — entitled Self-Help — in 1859. Its opening sentence: "Heaven helps those who help themselves", provides a variation of "God helps them that help themselves", the oft-quoted maxim that also appeared previously in Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac (1733–1758).