Robert Burton Quotations

Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing

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

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.

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.

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

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

Be not solitary, be not idle

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

What a glut of books! Who can read them?