Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
Ben JonsonTruth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
Ben JonsonWhen a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
Ben JonsonNo man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.
Ben Jonson