However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.
William ShenstoneThe fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
William ShenstoneA person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
William Shenstone