Robert Burton Quotes

A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a p...

All Poets are mad.

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure...

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I...

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from ...

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of m...

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.

If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.

To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of h...

A quiet mind cureth all.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to l...

They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature ga...

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.