Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

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

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

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.