A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSONA good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSONI’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSONStill may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSONI 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 JONSONWere Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSONPassions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSONHow Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSONGuilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSONArt hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONAll discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSONThere 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 JONSONAll concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSONSoul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSONHe that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSONIt is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
BEN JONSON