Shakespeare never permits a spirit to show itself but to men of the highest intellectual power. Ruskin.
Shakespeare says we are creatures that look 15 before and after; the more surprising that we do not look round a little and see what is passing under our very eyes. Carlyle.
Shakespeare stands alone. His want of erudition was a most happy and productive ignorance; it forced him back upon his own resources, which were exhaustless. Colton.
Shakespeare, the finest human figure, as I apprehend, that Nature has hitherto seen fit to make out of our widely-diffused Teutonic clay. I find no human soul so beautiful, these fifteen hundred known years—our supreme modern European man. Carlyle.
Shakespeare, the sage and seer of the human heart. H. Giles.
Shakespeare was forbidden of heaven to have any plans.... Not for him the founding of institutions, the preaching of doctrines, or the repression of abuses. Neither he, nor the sun, did on any morning that they rose together, receive charge from their Maker concerning such things. They were both of them to shine on the evil and good; both to behold unoffendingly all that was upon the earth, to burn unappalled upon the spears of kings, and undisdaining upon the reeds of the river. Ruskin.
Shakespeare (it is true) wrote perfect historical 20 plays on subjects belonging to the preceding centuries, (but) they are perfect plays just because there is no care about centuries in them, but a life which all men recognise for the human life of all time; ... a rogue in the fifteenth century being, at heart, what a rogue is in the nineteenth and was in the twelfth; and an honest or a knightly man being, in like manner, very similar to other such at any other time. Ruskin.
Shall horses run upon the rock? Will one plough there with oxen? Bible.
Shall we receive good at the hands of the Lord, and shall we not receive evil? Bible.
Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity, when an all-knowing, all-wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving? Atterbury.