What cant be cured must be endured. – Robert Burton
I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. – Robert Burton
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. – Robert Burton
Take particular care of your books…. When you lend a book to any one, make a memorandum of it before it leaves your house, and when it is returned cancel the entry. Every Passover and Tabernacles call in all your books that are out on loan. – Judah Ibn Tibbon, advice to son, quoted by Israel Abrahams, Jewish Life in the M