82 Quotes by Robert Burton

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

A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.

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 theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

All Poets are mad.

Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.

Be not solitary, be not idle.

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.