“I never thought an angry person valiant: Virtue is never aided by a vice.”

— Ben Jonson, The New Inn, 1631, Act IV, sc. iii

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.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”

“The universe is flux, life is opinion.”

“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.”

“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”