No 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 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 JONSONFortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSONChance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
BEN JONSONGive me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
BEN JONSONPoets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSONMy thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSONThe way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONI glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSONPopular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSONWords borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSONWhere it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSONOut of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSONIndeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSONAffliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSON