Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Thomas BrowneHad not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.
Thomas BrowneSuicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.
Thomas Browne