There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it? — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
