Ben Jonson Good Man Quotations

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.