“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Playwright and poet · 1564 – 1616

English playwright and poet, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language; author of Hamlet and Macbeth.

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The course of true love never did run smooth.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.