Thomas Browne May Quotations

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny; but I have no confidence on those which are fathered on the dead.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.