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)
“They told me there, that he was lately gone
About some land, which he had dearly bought
Long since on earth, to take possession.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)