If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

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

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.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.