Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

Education should be as broad as man.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.