Robert Burton

"One religion is as true as another."

"Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing."

"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."

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

"crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies."

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

"The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."

"As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight."