Famous quotes containing the words donne and/or wrote:
“Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)