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Excerpt from Golden Texts From the Works of William Shakespeare: A Collection of Quotations From the Plays and Poems Arranged Under Proper Classification
"Bread of flour is good: but there is bread sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book."
What sweeter honey than the thoughts gleaned from the books of the Bard of Avon?
How easily our souls may transcend these three hundred years and be united with this noble spirit, if our souls but will.
What joy it is to wander with Romeo to Juliet's window, to live through that beautiful night of youth and love; what fancies are born in Othello's indomitable jealousy; what mirth in Falstaff's fall.
In them the master mind has struck a chord which will reverberate for all time for all men who will but listen.
Ruskin says, "the essence of vulgarity is lack of sensation." What can we say of Shakespeare; he leads our fancies hither and thither, first through the highways of mirth and laughter, then through the labyrinths of life into the depths of sorrow. They live, they breathe, these beings of Shakespeare's fancy; they speak the most beautiful thoughts that were ever conceived in the mind of man.
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