“Shakespeare's stage must hold the glass to every age.”

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.”

“We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.”

“Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.”
Omne aevum curae; cunctis sua displicet aetas.

“As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.”

“It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.”

“Over and against the plays of Shakespeare and his fellows, as their natural counterpart, must be set the Voyages of Hakluyt; he who would understand the Elizabethan age, and what it meant for England, must know them both.”

“As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.”

“They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.”

“William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.”