“I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.”

— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

About Robert Burton

1577 – 1640

English scholar, author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy".

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

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

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

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

“It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.”

“Kindness begets kindness evermore.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

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“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”