Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

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

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

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

I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?