The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
William Shenstone

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

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
William Shenstone

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone

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.
William Shenstone

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.
William Shenstone

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.
William Shenstone