Ben Jonson

“They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.”

“A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.”

“They that know no evil will suspect none.”

“Talking is the disease of age.”

“He threatens many that hath injured one.”

“There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.”

“Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.”

“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.”

“If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.”

“There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.”

“And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.”

“Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.”

“To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.”

“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”

“Fortune, that favors fools.”

“Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,Now the sun is laid to sleep,Seated in thy silver chair,State in wonted manner keep:Hesperus entreats thy light,Goddess excellently bright.Earth, let not thy envious shadeDare itself to interpose,Cynthia's shining orb was madeHeaven to clear when day did close:Bless us then with wished sight,Goddess excellently bright.Lay thy bow of pearl apart,And thy crystal-shining quiver,Give unto the flying hartSpace to breath, how short soever:Thou that mak'st a day of night-Goddess excellently bright.”

“Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.”

“Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.”

“Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.”