– Aristotle
– Thomas Fuller
– Geoffrey Holder
– Herbert Spencer
– G. M. Trevelyan
– Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001
– Edward Everett Hale
– Joseph Addison
– Robert Hutchins
– Laurence J. Peter
– Lillian Smith
– Will Durant
– Norman Douglas
– George Lorimer
– Oscar Wilde
– Marian Wright Edelman
– Wu Ting-Fang
– Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
– William Butler Yeats
– Robert M. Hutchins
– Robert Frost
– John Ruskin