Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses.
Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.--_H. N. Hudson._
His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand to
embody any capricious thought that is uppermost in her mind. The
remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things
are brought together by a subtle spiritual connection.--_Emerson._
I think most readers of Shakespeare sometimes find themselves thrown
into exalted mental conditions like those produced by music.--_O. W.
Holmes._
Whatever other learning he wanted he was master of two books unknown to
many profound readers, though books which the last conflagration can
alone destroy. I mean the book of Nature and of Man.--_Young._
If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying
him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.--_Macaulay._
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be
said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of
civil and economical prudence.--_Johnson._