“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, Scene 1

About William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

English playwright and poet, author of 'Hamlet', 'Macbeth' and 'Romeo and Juliet'.

“To thine own self be true.”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.”

“In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“The heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.”

“The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret.”

“We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”