That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.
Ben JonsonIt is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
Ben JonsonGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
Ben Jonson