Robert Burton Quotes

A good conscience is a continual feast.

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

Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."

What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?

One religion is as true as another.

I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.

I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.

And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.

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

I light my candle from their torches.

Going as if he trod upon eggs.

Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.

Be not solitary, be not idle.

Make a virtue of necessity.