Ben Jonson Man Quotations

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

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

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.