Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner. - Thomas Browne

... methinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers.

wee carry with us the wonders we seeke without us: There is all Africa and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies wisely learnes in a compendium, what others labour at in a divided piece and endlesse volume.

Search whike thou wilt, and let thy reason goe
To ransome truth even to the Abysse below.
Rally the scattered causes, and that line
Which nature twists be able to untwine.