The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Category Archive: William Shenstone
Every single instance of a friend’s insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
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.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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 lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.