You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.- John Dryden
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
War is the trade of Kings.
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
To die is landing on some distant shore.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
