Thomas BrowneThinkers

Art is the perfection of nature.

The Bible is a work too hard for the teeth of time, and cannot perish but in the general flames, when all things shall their ashes.

Death is feared by no man. One fears only the stroke of death.

Death is the cure of all diseases... as such, it must be said that we all labor against our own cure.

Disease is cured only by death, so, in the end, it must be said that we all labor against our own cure.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Happiness is a thing which to enjoy is to travel into a very far country, and even out of ourselves.

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Light is but the shadow of God.

Man is a monster, that is, a composition of man and beast.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.

Man (human) is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.