Famous quotes containing the words sir, herbert and/or read:
“Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
And death in ambush lay in every pill.”
—Samuel, Sir Garth (1661–1719)
“Take of this grain, which in my garden grows,”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)