The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. – William Shenstone
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. – 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
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it. – William Shenstone