I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.
Thomas BrowneSuicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.
Thomas BrowneI have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
Thomas Browne