shenstone Quotes

“The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.”

“The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.”

“Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.”

“Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.”

“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.”

“Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.”

“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.”