William Shenstone Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.”

“There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.”

“The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.”

“Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.”

“The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.”

“The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.”

“Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.”

“A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.”

“Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.”

“Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.”