A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

- Robert Burton

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

- 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 inc…

- Robert Burton

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

- Robert Burton

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

- Robert Burton

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

- Robert Burton

They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb an…

- Robert Burton

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

- Robert Burton