Quotes from authors born in 1635
People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.
Henry Morgan
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.
Patrick Gordon
God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
Patrick Gordon
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry
If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job.
John Berry
Swoosie Kurtz 
Andy Goldsworthy 
John Clare 
Ernst Kaltenbrunner 
Alfred Jarry 
Kevin Costner 
Octavio Paz 
Bashar al-Assad