Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.