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• For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the derivation of the motions of the universe's spheres.
  I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world machine, created for our sake by the best and most systematic Artisan of all, were not understood with greater certainty by the philosophers, who otherwise examined so precisely the most insignificant trifles of this world....
• It is most true, stylus virum arguit,--our style bewrays us.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• All our geese are swans. -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect.
  2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14...
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 3...
• Anatomy is destiny. -- Sigmund Freud
• Petting: A study in anatomy in braille...
• As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 2...
• Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,--some of them in hell.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus to the Reade...
• The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable
  but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith....