| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 2170 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Burton (15771640) |
| QUOTATION: | [Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, and these, said she, are my jewels. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3. |
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