Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. Thomas Browne
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. Thomas Browne
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. Thomas Browne
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. Thomas Browne
Death is the cure for all diseases. Thomas Browne
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. Thomas Browne
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. Thomas Browne
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. Thomas Browne
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. Thomas Browne
Yet is every man his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner. Thomas Browne
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honour of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity. Thomas Browne
By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. Thomas Browne
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. Thomas Browne