Robert Burton

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

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Birds of a feather, flock together.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offences are written and registered and which time reveals to the sense and feeling of the offender.

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

Diseases crucify the soul of man attenuate our bodies dry them wither them rivel them up like old apples make them as so many Anatomies.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

A quiet mind cureth all.

The miller sees not all the water that flows by his mill.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

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

Penny wise pound foolish.

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.