Vain-hopes Quotes by Ben Johnson

“Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.”

— Ben Johnson

“not of an age, but for all time”

— Ben Johnson

“I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.”

— Ben Johnson

“The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.”

— Ben Johnson

“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”

— Ben Johnson

“He who partakes the honor, should participate in the labor.”

— Ben Johnson

“Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.”

— Ben Johnson