C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Primary Author Index
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- John Quincy Adams
- William Adams
- Addison
- Æschylus
- Thomas à Kempis
- Akenside
- Alcott
- T. B. Aldrich
- Alfieri
- W. R. Alger
- Sir A. Alison
- Washington Allston
- St. Ambrose
- Amiel
- Marcus Antoninus
- Petronius Arbiter
- Aristotle
- Armstrong
- Edwin Arnold
- Matthew Arnold
- William Arthur
- Roger Ascham
- Atterbury
- Auerbach
- Aughey
- St. Augustine
- Marcus Aurelius
- Ausonius
- Maltbie Babcock
- Bacon
- Bailey
- Joanna Baillie
- Mrs. Balfour
- Hosea Ballou
- Balzac
- Bancroft
- Mrs. Barbauld
- Albert Barnes
- Miss Barrett
- Barrow
- Bartol
- J. L. Basford
- Richard Baxter
- Beaconsfield
- Beattie
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- J. Beaumont
- Beecher
- Rabbi Ben Azai
- Park Benjamin
- Bentley
- Bishop Berkeley
- St. Bernard
- Bias
- Bible
- Blair
- William Blake
- Lady Blessington
- Bloomfield
- Boileau
- Boufflers
- Bovee
- J. F. Boyes
- Boyle
- Miss Braddon
- Fredrika Bremer
- John Bright
- Phillips Brooks
- Thomas Brooks
- Lord Brougham
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Elizabeth B. Browning
- Robert Browning
- Bryant
- Buddha
- Bulwer-Lytton
- Bunyan
- Burke
- Lord Burleigh
- Burns
- Burton
- Horace Bushnell
- Butler
- Charles Buxton
- Byron
- Calderon
- Campbell
- Carlyle
- Phœbe Cary
- Cato
- Cecil
- Cervantes
- Chalmers
- Chamfort
- Channing
- Chapin
- Chapman
- Charron
- Chateaubriand
- Chatfield
- Chaucer
- Chesterfield
- Mrs. L. M. Child
- Rufus Choate
- St. Chrysostom
- Churchill
- Colley Cibber
- Cicero
- Clarendon
- James Freeman Clarke
- Claudianus
- Henry Clay
- Mary Clemmer
- Grover Cleveland
- W. B. Clulow
- Hartley Coleridge
- Coleridge
- Abraham Coles
- Mme. Louise Colet
- Jeremy Collier
- Wilkie Collins
- Robert Collyer
- Colton
- Confucius
- Congreve
- Eliza Cook
- Joseph Cook
- Susan Coolidge
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Corneille
- Barry Cornwall
- Cowley
- Cowper
- Crabbe
- Cumberland
- George William Curtis
- T. L. Cuyler
- Daniel
- Dante
- Sir W. Davenant
- Sir John Davies
- Decker
- De Foe
- Madame de Gasparin
- Madame de Genlis
- Madame de Girardin
- Ninon de Lenclos
- Prince de Ligne
- Madame Deluzy
- Madame de Maintenon
- Demosthenes
- Alfred de Musset
- Denham
- De Quincey
- Mlle. de Scudéri
- Madame de Sévigné
- Madame de Staël
- Marguerite de Valois
- Dewey
- Dickens
- Diderot
- Wentworth Dillon
- Isaac Disraeli
- Sydney Dobell
- Donne
- Julia C. R. Dorr
- Dryden
- Mme. du Deffand
- Mme. Dufresnoy
- Timothy Dwight
- Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
- Miss Edgeworth
- Jonathan Edwards
- T. Edwards
- George Eliot
- Queen Elizabeth
- Ebenezer Elliott
- James Ellis
- Emerson
- Epictetus
- Erasmus
- Euripides
- Edward Everett
- St. Evremond
- Farquhar
- Feltham
- Fénelon
- Fielding
- John Flavel
- William Fleming
- Fontenelle
- John Ford
- Bishop R. S. Foster
- John Foster
- Franklin
- Froude
- Margaret Fuller
- Richard Fuller
- Thomas Fuller
- James A. Garfield
- Théophile Gautier
- Gay
- Gibbon
- R. W. Gilder
- Henry Giles
- Gladstone
- Glanvill
- Parke Godwin
- William Godwin
- Goethe
- Goldsmith
- Gotthold
- John B. Gough
- U. S. Grant
- Granville
- Gray
- Horace Greeley
- Anna Katharine Green
- Robert Greene
- Greville
- Guicciardini
- Guizot
- Thomas Guthrie
- Hafiz
- Mrs. Hale
- Haliburton
- Bishop Hall
- John Hall
- Robert Hall
- Halleck
- Hamerton
- James Hamilton
- Sir W. Hamilton
- J. C. and A. W. Hare
- Hare
- Bret Harte
- Moses Harvey
- Havard
- Hugh R. Haweis
- Hawthorne
- B. R. Haydon
- Hazlitt
- J. T. Headley
- Heine
- Helps
- Helvetius
- Mrs. Hemans
- Matthew Henry
- Patrick Henry
- Herbert
- Herder
- Herrick
- Heywood
- T. W. Higginson
- Aaron Hill
- Rowland Hill
- Hillard
- Roswell D. Hitchcock
- J. G. Holland
- J. McC. Holmes
- Holmes
- Henry Home
- Homer
- Hood
- Hooker
- Mark Hopkins
- Horace
- Bishop Horne
- Arsène Houssaye
- Julia Ward Howe
- Mary Howitt
- H. N. Hudson
- Thomas Hughes
- Victor Hugo
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Hume
- Leigh Hunt
- Huxley
- Jean Ingelow
- Washington Irving
- Silius Italicus
- Jacobi
- John Angel James
- Mrs. Jameson
- Thomas Jefferson
- Jeffrey
- St. Jerome
- Douglas Jerrold
- Herrick Johnson
- Johnson
- Ben Jonson
- Joubert
- Junius
- Juvenal
- Lord Kames
- Kant
- Alphonse Karr
- Keats
- Keble
- Omar Khayyám
- Charles Kingsley
- A. E. Kittredge
- Sheridan Knowles
- Koran
- Kossuth
- Laboulaye
- La Bruyère
- Lacordaire
- La Fontaine
- Lamartine
- Lamb
- L. E. Landon
- Landor
- Lord Lansdowne
- Lucy Larcom
- La Rochefoucauld
- Latimer
- Lavater
- Law Maxim
- William Law
- Lee
- Leighton
- Leland
- Le Sage
- Lessing
- L’Estrange
- H. P. Liddon
- Abraham Lincoln
- Livy
- Locke
- Longfellow
- Samuel Lover
- Lowell
- Lucan
- Lucretius
- Luther
- Lyly
- Lord Lyttleton
- Lytton
- Macaulay
- George MacDonald
- Machiavelli
- Mackenzie
- Mackintosh
- Alexander Maclaren
- E. L. Magoon
- Mallet
- Manilius
- Horace Mann
- Marlowe
- Marston
- Martial
- Harriet Martineau
- James Martineau
- Mason
- Gerald Massey
- Massillon
- Massinger
- William Matthews
- Maturin
- May
- Mazzini
- Melmoth
- Henry Melvill
- Menander
- Mencius
- Owen Meredith
- Metastasio
- Michael Angelo
- Michelet
- Middleton
- John Stuart Mill
- Joaquin Miller
- Milton
- Mirabeau
- Molière
- Lady Montagu
- Montaigne
- Montesquieu
- Montgomery
- D. L. Moody
- Moore
- Hannah More
- Lady Morgan
- Mountford
- Anna Cora Mowatt
- Max Müller
- D. M. Mulock
- Nabb
- Napoleon
- Madame Necker
- Newton
- Niebuhr
- Mrs. Norton
- Novalis
- John Boyle O’Reilly
- F. Osborn
- Mrs. Osgood
- Otway
- Ouida
- Sir Thomas Overbury
- Ovid
- Thomas Paine
- Paley
- Theodore Parker
- Charles H. Parkhurst
- Parnell
- Pascal
- Thomas Love Peacock
- William Penn
- Percival
- Pericles
- Persius
- J. Petit-Senn
- Petrarch
- Phædrus
- Wendell Phillips
- Donn Piatt
- Peter Pindar
- Pindar
- William Pitt
- Plato
- Plautus
- Pliny the Elder
- Pliny the Younger
- Pliny
- Plutarch
- Poe
- Achilles Poincelot
- Pollok
- Pope
- Jane Porter
- Margaret J. Preston
- S. Irenæus Prime
- Prior
- Propertius
- Wm. M. Punshon
- Pythagoras
- Quarles
- Pasquier Quesnel
- Quintilian
- Rabelais
- Racine
- Rahel
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Randolph
- Charles Reade
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Richardson
- Richelieu
- Richter
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Rivarol
- F. W. Robertson
- Rochester
- Rogers
- Mme. Roland
- Roscommon
- Christina G. Rossetti
- Rothschild
- Rousseau
- Joseph Roux
- Rowe
- Ruffini
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
- Ruskin
- Rutherford
- Saadi
- G. A. Sala
- Sallust
- George Sand
- Sanial-Dubay
- Sannazaro
- Sappho
- Sataka
- Saurin
- Savage
- Saville
- Savonarola
- J. G. Saxe
- Schiller
- Schlegel
- Schopenhauer
- Scott
- Ségur
- Selden
- Seneca
- Sewell
- Shaftesbury
- J. C. Shairp
- Shakespeare
- H. W. Shaw
- Shelley
- Shenstone
- Sheridan
- Sherlock
- Shirley
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Mrs. Sigourney
- Simms
- Samuel Smiles
- Alexander Smith
- Horace Smith
- Sydney Smith
- Smollett
- Socrates
- Solon
- Somerville
- Sophocles
- South
- Southern
- Southey
- Herbert Spencer
- Ichabod Spencer
- Spenser
- Harriet Prescott Spofford
- Sprague
- Sprat
- Spurgeon
- Stanislaus
- Dean Stanley
- Stedman
- Steele
- John Sterling
- Sterne
- Stillingfleet
- R. H. Stoddard
- R. S. Storrs
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Suckling
- Charles Sumner
- Swedenborg
- Madame Swetchine
- Swift
- Swinburne
- Publius Syrus
- Tacitus
- Taine
- Talfourd
- Talleyrand
- Talmage
- Talmud
- Bayard Taylor
- Henry Taylor
- Jeremy Taylor
- Wm. M. Taylor
- Sir W. Temple
- Tennyson
- Terence
- Thackeray
- Thales
- Edward Thomson
- Thomson
- Thoreau
- Thucydides
- Tibullus
- Tickell
- Tillotson
- Trench
- Tuckerman
- Tupper
- Vanbrugh
- Vaughan
- Vauvenargues
- Ralph Venning
- Virgil
- Voltaire
- Von Knebel
- Lew Wallace
- Waller
- Horace Walpole
- Izaak Walton
- Warburton
- Arthur Warwick
- George Washington
- Watts
- Daniel Webster
- John Webster
- John Weiss
- Wellington
- John Wesley
- Whately
- Whewell
- Whipple
- Sarah Helen Whitman
- Walt Whitman
- Whittier
- Wieland
- Wilberforce
- Oscar Wilde
- N. P. Willis
- Willmott
- Thomas Wilson
- William Winter
- Robert C. Winthrop
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Wordsworth
- Sir Henry Wotton
- Wycherley
- Xenophon
- Young
- Yriarte
- Zeno
- Zimmermann
- Zoroaster