Ben Johnson

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

The way to rise is to obey and please.

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 for his master.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

O for an engine to keep back all clocks!

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

They that know no evil will suspect none.

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

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

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