I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.
Thomas BrowneThink not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
Thomas BrowneSleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.
Thomas BrowneThere are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.
Thomas Browne