Thomas Browne

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

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

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

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

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.