Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Ben Jonson

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
Ben Jonson

Talking is the disease of age.
Ben Jonson

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

They that know no evil will suspect none.
Ben Jonson

This is the very womb and bed of enormity.
Ben Jonson

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben Jonson

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

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson

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

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
Ben Jonson