82 Quotes by Robert Burton

No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.

By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters...

A scholar deserves better than a soldier, because a soldier's work lasts for an age, a scholar's for ever.

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

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

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

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

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

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.