Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

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.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.