Ben Jonson Quotes

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

The just man walks in his integrity

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Win or lose, do it fairly.