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. – William Shenstone
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. – William Shenstone
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. – William Shenstone
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. – William Shenstone