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

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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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

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

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Speak low, if you speak love.

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