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."