There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
William ShenstoneFools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
William ShenstoneThe love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.
William ShenstoneLet the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
William Shenstone