Ben JonsonThinkers

Affection makes a fool of any man.

Ambition is a rebel both to the soul and reason, and enforces all laws, all conscience ; treads upon religion, and offers violence to nature's self.

Ambition is like a torrent in that it never looks back.

Aristotle is the first accurate critic and truest judge — nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.

Art has no enemy but ignorance.

The Book is a faithful repository, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart its instruction.

The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.

Good luck is biased toward fools — Fortune, that favors fools.

Hope is a bait that covers any hook.

The Pipe is what marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

The Poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.