“I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.”

“Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love.”

“Is this a vision?Is this a dream? Do I sleep?”

“Life is but a dream, within a dream.”

“A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost...”

“Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”