English playwright, poet, and actor
Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
Speak low, if you speak love.
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.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.