“He that fears death, or mourns it, in the just, Shows of the resurrection little trust.”

— Ben Jonson, First Folio, 1616, Epigram XXXIV

About Ben Jonson

1572 – 1637

English playwright and poet, author of "Volpone".

“Thou art but gone before, whither the world must follow.”

“Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.”

“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”

“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”

“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!”