Recent events recalled to mind William Shakespeare.  This picture is a photograph from my computer screen, of the article in Wikipedia about William Shakespeare. Introduced to him early by our mother, who read on of his plays to us when we were young children, having seen “Othello” enacted with Richard Burton when I was in high school or college, and having purchased an inexpensive book of his complete works when our own kids were young, I had not thought much about him.  I did see Verdi’s operatic interpretation “Otello”, and heard some famous quotes,

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
—Hamlet in Hamlet

“This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
—Polonius in Hamlet

You can see these and many more Shakespearean quotes online, and on other websites.

In April 2015, we passed the 451st anniversary of his birth.  I am so impressed at his astute insights.