Famous quotes containing the words sir, herbert and/or read:
“We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.”
—Humphrey, Sir Gilbert (c.1537–1583)
“making what’s new
Ill and good, old, for as we die in you,
You die in Time, Time in Eternity.”
—Edward Herbert (1583–1648)
“This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.”
—Sojourner Truth (c. 1777–1883)