[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin,…

Quote byRobert Burton · 1577–1640

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Part I, Section 2, member 3, subsection 11..

English (original)

[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.

— Robert Burton

I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.

All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.