For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
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 BrowneThere are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
Thomas Browne