There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
Thomas BrowneIt is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
Thomas BrowneMany-have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
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