The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century

What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,

For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.