William Shenstone quotes

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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 proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

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

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.