“ If to have all that riches can purchase is to be rich; if to do all that can be done in a long time is to live long; he is equally a benefactor to mankind, who teaches them to protract the duration, or shorten the business, of life. ”

“ LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS
"To have great excellences and great faults, magnae virtutes, nec minora vitia, is the poesy," says our author, "of the best natures." This poesy may be properly applied to the style of Browne; it is vigorous, but rugged; it is learned, but pedantic; it is deep, but obscure; it strikes, but does not please; it commands, but does not allure: his tropes are harsh, and his combinations uncouth. He fell into an age in which our language began to lose the stability which it had obtained in the time of Elizabeth ”