No man is an Island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.John DonneDevotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes · 1624★ 6.9
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.John DonneDevotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes · 1624★ 3.5
TreatiseIn architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building hath three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.Henry Wotton1624★ 1.8