Robert Burton Quotes

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

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

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

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

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

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

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

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

Be not solitary, be not idle

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

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

A quiet mind cureth all.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

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

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

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

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.

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

All Poets are mad.