I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
You are not now to think what's best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter'd; and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue. — 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
