Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
William ShenstoneLet the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
William ShenstoneLet us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
William ShenstoneThe fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
William Shenstone