8 Quotes By Robert Burton


Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Robert Burton on faith

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton on happiness

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

One was never married, and that's his hell another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton on marriage

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

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

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton on ambition

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton on wealth