Robert Burton
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.Collection: Morning
A quiet mind cureth all.Collection: Peace
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.Collection: Marriage
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.Collection: Love
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
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.
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.
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.Collection: Mind
Be not solitary, be not idleCollection: Solitary
If you like not my writing, go read something else.Collection: Writing
Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.Collection: Overcoming
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.Collection: Dog
What a glut of books! Who can read them?Collection: Book
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.Collection: Thinking