Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

- John Dryden

I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

- John Dryden

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

- John Dryden

None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformit…

- John Dryden

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

- John Dryden

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

- John Dryden

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

- John Dryden

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

- John Dryden

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

- John Dryden