Sir Thomas Browne

“To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.”

“Sleep is a death, O make me try, by sleeping, what it is to die.”

“The heart of man is the place the devils dwell in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.”

“There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.”

“No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.”

“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”

“I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me.”

“The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.”

“All cannot be happy at once; for, because the glory of one state depends upon the ruin of another, there is a revolution and vicissitude of their greatness.”

“But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.”

“Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.”

“We carry with us the wonders we seek without us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us.”

“For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital, and a place not to live, but to die in.”

“Let thy Studies be free as thy Thoughts and Contemplations: but fly not only upon the wings of Imagination; Join Sense unto Reason, and Experiment unto Speculation.”

“Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy.”