If others in the same Glass better see 'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me: For my Salvation must its Doom receive Not from what others, but what I believe.

— John Dryden

I'll habits gather by unseen degrees As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas.

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

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

— John Dryden

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.

— John Dryden

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

— John Dryden

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

— John Dryden

Love is love's reward.

— John Dryden

Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?Oh, burst Effects of necessary Law! How ill my Fear they buy my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

— John Dryden

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

— John Dryden