That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSONThat I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSONReader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSONGood men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSONGuilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSONThe voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSONGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSONAll discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSONI glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSONWeigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSONA good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSONTell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONWho casts to write a living line, must sweat.
BEN JONSONTis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
BEN JONSONNothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSONAristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
BEN JONSON