John Dryden

"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit."

"Love is love's reward."

"I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again"

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

"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."

"But love's a malady without a cure."