Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
William ShenstoneThe fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
William ShenstoneA liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William ShenstoneWhen misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.
William Shenstone