Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
Ben JonsonPopular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
Ben JonsonWho will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
Ben JonsonIt is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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