Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

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

Humor is the mistress of tears.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.