The conscience of a people is their power.
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.