1"My library was dukedom large enough."
1:2; Prospero demonstrates that he values knowledge as much as he does material power, to the extent that he neglects the latter
2"As you from crimes would pardoned be, Let your indulgence set me free."
5:1; Prospero's final lines to end the play
3"The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance."
5:1; Prospero pauses to weigh up the morality and sense of his actions; the alliteration of the two shows the closeness with which they exist
4"My high charms work, And these, mine enemies, are all knit up In their distractions. They now are in my power."
3:3; Prospero evaluates the total power that he has over the isle
5"The government I cast upon my brother And to my state grew stranger, being transported And rapt in secret studies."
1:2; Prospero's mistake that cost him his dukedom; this quotation also to some degree foils Prospero to Caliban, for both resign their power over a territory when deeply and mistakenly trusting another
6"All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test. Here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift. "
4:1; Prospero offers Miranda to Ferdinand on the conditions that he has completed the work assigned to him
7"Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done."
1:2; Prospero starts the play with a lack of empathy, and it is curious as to whether this actually changes throughout
8"For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up."
1:2; Prospero's threats towards Caliban reveal a repressed violence in him, which he probably uses Caliban to exercise
9"Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air. And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself—Yea, all which it inherit—shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."
4:1; dream speech about the illusory nature of magic and of theatrical performance
10"We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."
5:1 Prospero dream quotation
11"But this rough magic I here abjure, … I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book."
5:1; after listing his magic accomplishments, Prospero resolves the give up the magic, as he recognises it as the source of all his and others' problems
12"graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art."
5:1; Prospero recounts his magical abilities, many of which compare with Sycorax', the same witch he condemned for performing them
13"Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command."
1:2; Prospero expresses the conditional nature of Ariel's freedom