Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSONFortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONThe soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
BEN JONSONThe day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSONAll the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSONTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSONThe Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONThy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSONCourt a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSONSoul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSONSweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSONA good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSONWhosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
BEN JONSONTo struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSONOds me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSON