Thomas Browne

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

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

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

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.