“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

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

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

All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts.

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

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

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

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

All that glitters is not gold.