Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
John Dryden

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
John Dryden

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
John Dryden

God never made His work for man to mend.
John Dryden

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden

He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden

Honor is but an empty bubble.
John Dryden

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
John Dryden

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
John Dryden

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
John Dryden

Love is love's reward.
John Dryden

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
John Dryden

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
John Dryden

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden