. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.

- Gilbert Burnet

Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If …

- Gilbert Burnet

The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true: the King (he said)…

- Gilbert Burnet

...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusemen…

- Gilbert Burnet

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

- Gilbert Burnet

An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession…

- Gilbert Burnet

One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, f…

- Gilbert Burnet

There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities…

- Gilbert Burnet