The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap.

I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.

Whereof what's past is prologue,

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!