

| John Burroughs | John Critchley Prince | John Dryden | John Fletcher |
| John Foster | John Greenleaf Whittier | John Locke | John Lubbock |
| John Marston | John Milton | John Quincy Adams | John Ray |
| John Ruskin | John Stuart Blackie | John Suckling | John Sullivan Dwight |
| Jonathan Swift | Joseph Addison | Juvenal | Lao-tzu |
| Lewis Carroll | Lord Byron | Lord Chesterfield | Lord Macaulay |
| Madame Swetchine | Marcus Aurelius | Mark Twain | Martin Farquhar Tupper |
| Matthew Arnold | Matthew Prior | Miguel de Cervantes | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Orison Swett Marden | Oscar Wilde |
| Owen Meredith | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Periander of Corinth |
| Philip Massinger | Phocion | Pittacus | Plato |
| Pliny the Younger | Publilius Syrus | Publius Syrus | Pythagoras |
| Rabelais | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Richard Sharp | Richard Sheridan |
| Robert Burns | Robert Burton | Robert Green Ingersoll | Robert Herrick |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Rudyard Kipling | Samuel Butler | Samuel Johnson |
| Samuel Smiles | Seneca | Sir John Denham | Sir Thomas Browne |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton | Sir Walter Scott | Socrates | Sydney Smith |
| Terence | Thales of Miletus | Theodore Roosevelt | Third Earl of Shaftesbury |
| Thomas A Kempis | Thomas Campbell | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Fuller |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Love Peacock | Thomas Moore |
| Tobias Smollett | Virgil | Walt Whitman | Washington Allston |