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American journalist and author. He worked as a Washington correspondent and wrote memoirs of Civil War leaders.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1882 – 1945 · United States

32nd President of the United States

Samuel Smiles

1812 – 1904 · United Kingdom

British author and pioneer of self-help literature. His masterwork Self-Help was one of the biggest bestsellers of the Victorian era and became the forerunner of self-improvement literature.

Demosthenes was a famous orator and statesman of ancient Greece. Born in Athens, he delivered several speeches in opposition to Philip II of Macedon.

A Confucian primer for children's education, traditionally attributed to Zhu Xi.

American women's suffrage activist and reformer. She became the first woman to run for President of the United States.

Roman statesman, orator and philosopher. He set the standard for Latin prose and was killed by political enemies while defending the Republic.

Indian spiritual teacher. A master of Sufi mysticism, he introduced Sufi thought and universal spirituality to the Western world.

English writer whose novels are set in the rural countryside near the Welsh border. Her best-known work is The Golden Arrow.

Italian Romantic poet and philosopher, considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century. He left the poetry collection Canti, the notebooks Zibaldone and the aphorisms Pensieri.

Medieval English poet. He is known as the author of the alliterative poem Piers Plowman, though little is recorded of his life.