Quotes from Robert A. Burton

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

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

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Certainty and similar states of 'knowing what we know' arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.