219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

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

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

Every Country hath its Machiavel.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.