The Anatomy of Melancholy on Utopia: “Sir Thomas More in his Utopia commends voluntary death, if he be sibi aut aliis molestus, troublesome to himself or others,”
The Anatomy of Melancholy on The City of God: “He that is desirous to hear of this disease, or more examples, let him read Austin in his 18th book de Civitate Dei, cap. 5.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy on Iliad: “Homer, Iliad. 1, brings in Achilles eating of his own heart in his idleness, because he might not fight.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy on The Odyssey: “Plutarch saith as much of Homer, for which cause belike Niceratus, in Xenophon, was made by his parents to con Homer's Iliads and Odysseys without book, ut in virum bonum evaderet,”
The Anatomy of Melancholy on The Aeneid: “A company of stern readers dislike the second of the Aeneids, and Virgil's gravity, for inserting such amorous passions in an heroical subject;”
The Anatomy of Melancholy on Essays: “Montaigne, in his Essays, gives instate in Caesar, Mahomet the Turk, that sacked Constantinople, and Ladislaus, king of Naples, that besieged Florence:”
The Anatomy of Melancholy on Natural History: “Uncle Pliny, lib. 2. cap. 7. nat. hist. and lib. 7. cap. 55, in express words denies the immortality of the soul.”