William Shakespeare is so extraordinary that The Complete Works of Shakespeare could as soon be called The Book of Reality.
William Shakespeare is the fist universal author, replacing the Bible in secular consciousness.
William Shakespeare is a figure who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.
William Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
William Shakespeare is a thinker one gets acquainted with without knowing how. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them every where, one is intimate with him by instinct.
William Shakespeare is a writer who, if he required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.