Robert Burton

Be not solitary, be not idle.

What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of …

They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.

Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of …

One religion is as true as another.

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.

Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.

The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.

Out of too much learning become mad.

The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.

For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.

Make a virtue of necessity.

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.

The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.

I light my candle from their torches.

Going as if he trod upon eggs.

Though it rain daggers with their points downward.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.