“ 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. Thomas Browne
“ Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. Thomas Browne
“ I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me. Thomas Browne
“ All the Navel therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker, and the connexion he must needs have unto heaven, who was the Sonne of God. For holding no depende… Thomas Browne
“ But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a… Thomas Browne
“ It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike. Thomas Browne
“ I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse. Thomas Browne
