O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome — Ben Jonson Copy Share
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private. — Ben Jonson Copy Share
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means… — Ben Jonson Copy Share
Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his… — Ben Jonson Copy Share
