No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

BEN JONSON

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

BEN JONSON

Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.

BEN JONSON

Indeed Names Woundy

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

BEN JONSON

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

BEN JONSON

Needs

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

BEN JONSON

Popularity

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

BEN JONSON

Long

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.

BEN JONSON

Feet Roots

Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

BEN JONSON

Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.

BEN JONSON

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

BEN JONSON

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

BEN JONSON

Lines

I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.

BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

BEN JONSON

Real Spices