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

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

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

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

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

Brevity is the soul of wit.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.