Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas BrowneBy compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Thomas BrowneIf there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.
Thomas Browne