"I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian." — Sir Thomas Browne

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Source: On the Grasshopper and Cricket (1816)

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

Sir Thomas Browne Quote