In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame. — William Shenstone
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,–both — William Shenstone
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite. — William Shenstone
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. — William Shenstone
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. — William Shenstone
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. — William Shenstone
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. — William Shenstone
Every single instance of a friend’s insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money. — William Shenstone
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. — William Shenstone
Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. — William Shenstone
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of scripture most frequently recollected and quoted — William Shenstone
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last. — William Shenstone
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters. — William Shenstone