“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

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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Parting is such sweet sorrow.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

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

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

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

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