The Gentlemen’s Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness - Chapter VII
Cecil B. Hartley
The Devil’s Dictionary (Chap. 16)
Ambrose Bierce
Society and Solitude (Chap. 3)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Real History of the Rosicrucians - Chapter II. The Prophecy of Paracelsus, and The Universal Reformation of the Whole Wide World
Arthur Edward Waite
Vol. III, Book III, Chap. III: “Requiescant”
Victor Hugo
The Varieties of Religious Experience - Lecture 2: Circumscription of the Topic
William James
Transition from the Common Rational Knowledge of Morality to the Philosophical
Immanuel Kant
On the Future of our Educational Institutions (Chap. 2)
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Pope
Robert Browning