William Shenstone Quotes
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
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Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.
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Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
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Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
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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.
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Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
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Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
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Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.