“A quiet mind cureth all.”
Robert Burton“A quiet mind cureth all.”
Robert Burton“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”
Robert Burton“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“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”
Robert Burton“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.”
Robert Burton“To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.”
Robert Burton“Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.”
Robert Burton“Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.”
Robert Burton“Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.”
Robert Burton“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”
Robert Burton