by Georg Büchmann , Walter Robert-tornow
by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston
by Michel de Montaigne
by Robert Swain Peabody
by Mark Twain
by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
by Guy de Maupassant
by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
by Mme. Du Hausset , princesse de Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan Lamballe
by Giacomo Casanova
by Edouard Fournier
by Alexandre Dumas
by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
by Alexandre Dumas
by Gilbert Parker
by Henry Drummond
by Charles Dudley Warner
by John Purver Richardson
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
by Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz
by Jean de La Fontaine
by John Galsworthy
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
by Filson Young
by Count Anthony Hamilton
by Samuel Pepys
by Madame de Montespan
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
by King of France consort of Henry IV Queen Marguerite
by Georg Ebers
by Charles James Lever
by John Lothrop Motley
by George Meredith
by George Meredith
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
by Michel de Montaigne
by duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans
by William Dean Howells
by Various Authors
by Abraham Lincoln
by Lewis Goldsmith
by Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
by William Dean Howells
by Georg Ebers
by Giacomo Casanova
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
by Various Authors
by Albert Bigelow Paine
by Charles Dudley Warner
by Samuel Pepys
by John Lothrop Motley