William Shenstone

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the…

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men…

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it…

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself…

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside…

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a…

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the…

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you…

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most…

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases…

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world…

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep…