Anatomy Of Melancholy Quotes

“That other thing, The Anatomy of Melancholy. Fascinating. But it would take so much reading, on and on forgetting everything; all the ordinary things, seeing things in some new way, some way that fascinated people for a moment if you tried to talk about it and then made them very angry[...] Impossible to take it out and have it on the schoolroom table for tea-time reading.”
― Dorothy M. Richardson, Pilgrimage 1

“A scholar deserves better than a soldier, because a soldier's work lasts for an age, a scholar's for ever.”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholoy, What it is, With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it. In Three Partitions. With Their ... Historically, Opened and cut up. By