"Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on."

"All lost! to prayers, to prayers! All lost!"

"The government I cast upon my brother, And to my state grew stranger, being transported And rapt in secret studies."

"Miranda: If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems,…"

"Miranda: You have often Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp'd, And left me to a bootless inquisition, Concluding, S…"

"What see'st thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?"

"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground — long heath, brown furze, anything. The wil…"

"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness, and the bettering of my mind"

"Like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie."

"A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!"