Thomas Browne Quotes

"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."

"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."

"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them."

"Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner."

"Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven."

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

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

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

"It is we that are blind, not fortune."

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

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

"Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous."

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

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

"By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also"

"Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich."