Thomas Browne

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof; 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us that our nearest friends, Wife, and Children stand afraid and start at us.

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

Thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in diverse elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.

All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.

Art is the perfection of nature.

We carry with us the wonders, we seek without us: There is all Africa, and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies, wisely learns in a compendium, what others labour at in a divided …

The severe Schools shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

Rich with the spoils of Nature.

A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with me in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

Who will not commend the wit of astrology? Venus, born out of the sea, hath her exaltation in Pisces.

When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.