Thomas Browne

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

— Thomas Browne

Women do most delight in revenge.

— Thomas Browne

(Death is) A leap into the dark.

— Thomas Browne

Light is but the shadow of God.

— Thomas Browne

Lord deliver me from myself.

— Thomas Browne

Study prophecies when they are become histories.

— Thomas Browne

Death is the cure for all diseases.

— Thomas Browne

Light is the shadow of God.

— Thomas Browne

“Passion against Reason, Reason against Faith, Faith against the Devil, and my Conscience against all.”

— Thomas Browne

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

— Thomas Browne

He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.

— Thomas Browne

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

— Thomas Browne

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

— Thomas Browne

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

— Thomas Browne

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

— Thomas Browne

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

— Thomas Browne

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out…

— Thomas Browne

Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On…

— Thomas Browne

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but…

— Thomas Browne

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;…

— Thomas Browne

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world,…

— Thomas Browne

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not…

— Thomas Browne

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of…

— Thomas Browne

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one…

— Thomas Browne

“All places, all airs, make unto me one Countrey; I am in England every where, and under any Meridian. I have been…

— Thomas Browne

There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the…

— Thomas Browne

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor…

— Thomas Browne

To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our…

— Thomas Browne

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world…

— Thomas Browne

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small…

— Thomas Browne

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick;…

— Thomas Browne

“It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his…

— Thomas Browne

“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the…

— Thomas Browne

“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the…

— Thomas Browne

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

— Thomas Browne

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

— Thomas Browne

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

— Thomas Browne

The man without a navel still lives in me.

— Thomas Browne

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

— Thomas Browne

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

— Thomas Browne