We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.
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 BrowneGrave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.
Thomas Browne