I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.
William ShenstoneI know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
William ShenstoneLet us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
William Shenstone