Shakespeare was the greatest of philosophers.
He knew the conditions of success--of happiness--the relations _that men,
sustain_ to each other, and the duties of all. He knew the tides and
currents of the heart--the cliffs and caverns of the brain. He knew the
weakness of the will, the sophistry of desire--and "That pleasure
and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true
decision."
He knew that the soul lives in an invisible world--that flesh is but a
mask, and that "There is no art to find the mind's construction In the
face."