Quotes from authors born in 1611
There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
William Cartwright
The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
James Harrington
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
James Harrington
The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
William Cartwright
Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.
William Cartwright
Salmon P. Chase 
Emmy Rossum 
John W. Foster 
Frederick M. Vinson 
Robert Browning 
John B. S. Haldane 
Augustus Saint-Gaudens 
Jacob Bronowski