Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

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

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

True love is better than glory.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.