His best known work, the _Religio Medici_, is a random confession of belief and thoughts, full of the inconsequent speculations of a man with some knowledge of science but not deeply or earnestly interested about it, content rather to follow the wayward imaginations of a mind naturally gifted with a certain poetic quality, than to engage in serious intellectual exercise.

Such work could never maintain its hold on taste if it were not carefully finished and constructed with elaborate care.

Browne, if he was not a great writer, was a literary artist of a high quality.

He exploits a quaint and lovable egoism with extraordinary skill; and though his delicately figured and latinized sentences commonly sound platitudinous and trivial when they are translated into rough Saxon prose, as they stand they are rich and melodious enough.
(4) In a century of surpassing richness in prose and poetry, one author stands by himself.

John Milton refuses to be classed with any of the schools.