Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. – William Shenstone
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. – William Shenstone
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. – William Shenstone
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. – William Shenstone
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres. – Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891