The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
William ShenstoneA wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.
William ShenstoneA large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
William ShenstoneAnger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
William Shenstone