24 Quotes by Robert A. Burton

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.

Employment, which Galen calls ‘Nature’s Physician,’ is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.

Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher’s stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.