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

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

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

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

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
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