Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Thomas BrowneFor there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
Thomas BrowneWe term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
Thomas BrowneThe mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.
Thomas Browne