– William Shakespeare
– Edgar Allan Poe
– John Christian Bovee
– John W. Vessey, Jr.
– Butler
– John Dryden
– Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine
– Charles Baudelaire
– Golda Meir
– John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
– Voltaire
– Quentin Crisp
– Jane Austen
– Michel de Montaigne
– Persian Proverb
– Von Humboldt
– Hazlitt
– C. C. Colton
– Sir Thomas Browne
– Goethe
– Madame Swetchine
– A.E. Houseman
– Julia Child