Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSONSuccess hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSONWhen a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSONSilence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSONWere Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSONMoney never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSONPopular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSONThe world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSONNo man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONMen that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
BEN JONSONIf men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
BEN JONSONNor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
BEN JONSONWoman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSONSweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
BEN JONSONFor whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSONThe way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON