Ben Jonson

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

Follow a virtuous and noble education; marry first a wife able to govern a household with judgment, and to give you good counsel in all things.

In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

Reader, look, Not on my cover glass, But on my book.

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

Though I am young, I scorn to flinch; Much less to fawn, or be a slave.

Get money; still get money, boy; No matter by what means.

I am not of that metal, but a man Of larger growth.

Calumny will sear Virtue itself: or will give scandal To the gods.

True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Fortune, my friend, I've often thought, Is weak, if Art assist her not.

Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die.

It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be.

Men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them.

The Devil is not so black as he is painted.

A good man will take it as a favour, an ill one will take it as a flattery.

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

The stage Is a small place, but it holds a great deal.

Poetry, in its nature, is sacred to the good and great: the relation between them, as they concern the best of men, is ever moral.