Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSONOur whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSONI would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSONStill may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
BEN JONSONPeace is never more than one thought away.
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 JONSONI see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSONHe that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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 JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONWine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSONPopular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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 JONSONArt hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONIt is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSONTell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSONA thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON