219 Quotes by Thomas Browne

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.