It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

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

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.