Quotes from authors born in 1628
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
John Bunyan
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
John Bunyan
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
Charles Perrault
After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
Charles Perrault
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
John Bunyan
Ernst Mayr 
Romain Rolland 
Maria Grazia Cucinotta 
Stanley Baldwin 
Dweezil Zappa 
Walter Lippmann 
Phil Silvers 
Vita Sackville-West