Robert Burton Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.	Adversity
2	As dogs in a wheel, or squirrels in a cage, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.	Ambition
3	Let the world have whatever sports and recreations please them best, provided they be followed with discretion.	Amusement
4	I have no wife or children, good or bad, to provide for; a mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene.	Bachelor
5	Conquer thyself. Till thou hast done that; thou art a slave; for it is almost as well to be in subjection to another's appetite as thine own.	Self-Control
6	Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.	Employment
7	Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.	Cooking
8	The fear of death is worse than death.	Death
9	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.	Enthusiasm
10	Ambition, a proud covetousness, or a dry thirst of honour, a great torture of the mind, composed of envy, pride, and covetousness, a gallant madness, one defines it a pleasant poison.	Enthusiasm

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