» Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American newspaperman and short-story writer
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» Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British clergyman, sportsman and author [well known for his eccentrities]
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» Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American moral and social philosopher and author
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» Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet and educator
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» Horace (65-8) Roman lyric poet ['Odes', 'Satires', 'Ars Poetica']
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» Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) French satiric moralist
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» Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Lawyer, politician 16thPresident of the United States[Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth]
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» Anonymous (-)
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» David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher, economist and historian
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» George Eliot (1819-1880) British novelist ['Middlemarch']
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» Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician, social reformer
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» Italian proverb (-)
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» Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet and satirist
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» Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, print-publisher and philosopher
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» Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British political writer
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» Henry Miller (1891-1980) American author
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» Horace (65-8) Roman lyric poet ['Odes', 'Satires', 'Ars Poetica']
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» James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American romantic poet, critic and editor
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