219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.

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

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

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.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.