Quotes by : Ben Johnson

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught....

O for an engine to keep back all clocks!

The way to rise is to obey and please.

To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished-....

They that know no evil will suspect none.

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.