Quotes from authors passed in 1694
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
Matsuo Basho
Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.
Antoine Arnauld
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
Matsuo Basho
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
John Tillotson
Jean Shepherd 
Robert M. Pirsig 
Angie Everhart 
Peter Stuyvesant 
Andrew Johnson 
Julia Child 
Lajos Kossuth 
Michel Gondry