It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
William ShenstoneAnger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
William ShenstoneA liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William ShenstoneHarmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.
William Shenstone