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

Thomas Browne

“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.”

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

“When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.”

Thomas Browne

“Who will not commend the wit of astrology? Venus, born out of the sea, hath her exaltation in Pisces.”

Thomas Browne