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.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

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.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

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.

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