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

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
John Dryden

Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
John Dryden

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
John Dryden

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
John Dryden

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
John Dryden

Successful crimes alone are justified.
John Dryden

The first is the law, the last prerogative.
John Dryden

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
John Dryden

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
John Dryden

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
John Dryden

They that possess the prince possess the laws.
John Dryden

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
John Dryden

To die is landing on some distant shore.
John Dryden

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
John Dryden

War is the trade of Kings.
John Dryden

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden

What passions cannot music raise or quell?
John Dryden