If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way. — 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 you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at… — 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
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If I freely may discover What should please me in my lover, I would have her fair and witty, Savouring more of… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that… — 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
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 Image
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
