“ Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity. Robert Burton
“ To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. Robert Burton
“ 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 farthes… Robert Burton
“ To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature. Robert Burton
“ No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread. Robert Burton
“ Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. Robert Burton
“ What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. Robert Burton
“ Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. Robert Burton
“ 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… Robert Burton
“ I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi the… Robert Burton
“ That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing. Robert Burton
