Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.
Thomas BrowneThere are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.
Thomas BrowneAge doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.
Thomas Browne