Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
Thomas BrowneI would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.
Thomas BrowneWere the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
Thomas Browne