Sir Thomas Browne

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is but read more

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the
invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in
equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in
that invisible fabric.

God is like a skilful Geometrician.

God is like a skilful Geometrician.

Sleep is a death, O make me try,
By sleeping, what it is to die:
And as read more

Sleep is a death, O make me try,
By sleeping, what it is to die:
And as gently lay my head
On my grave, as now my bed.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.