They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSONThey, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSONA prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSONAll the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSONWe are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONI glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSONA new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSONMany might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
BEN JONSONO! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSONReader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSONFortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONAll discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSONReady writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSONTrue melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSONFor a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSONWhom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSONThe soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSON