A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. – William Shenstone
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. – 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
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