219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

Women do most delight in revenge.

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

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

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

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.