To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. – Robert Burton
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. – 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
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love’s the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. – Robert Burton
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. – Robert Burton
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. – Robert Burton
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. – Robert Burton
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes’ bastards. – Robert Burton
