"All the Navel therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker, and the connexion he must needs have unto heaven, who was the Sonne of God. For holding no depende..."
- Thomas Browne
"I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me."
"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us."
"It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike."
"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases"
"This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death."
"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
"But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a ..."
"I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse."
"Where life is more terrible than death it is the truest valor to dare to live."
- Sir Thomas Browne