14 Quotes by Robert Burton

• Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
• We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
• To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
• One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
• No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
• 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.
• A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
• Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
• A quiet mind cureth all.
• Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
• Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
• A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

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