152 Quotes by William Shenstone

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

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

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 difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.