Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

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

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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.