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• I look upon you as gem of the old rock.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial...
• What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial, Chap. v...
• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial, Chap. v...
• Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial, Chap. v...
• Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn-Burial, Chap. v...
• The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. -- Sir Thomas Browne
• On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated
  As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead....
• When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.
  -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Vulgar Erro...
• Honey, you lied when you said that you loved me and I had no cause to doubt you.
  But, I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than go on living without you....