“Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.” WellsMayMeanPersonsDesireFoundLimitsAbsolutesIndependenceFortuneAbundanceContracts Author:William Shenstone
“It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.” MenMeanTwoParticularHe ManGeniusTasteDisplayDiamondOddsDisputesQuicknessLuster Book:Essays on Men and Manners Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.” PeopleMeanLittlesPersonsEndsSeemsHonestAimAffectionAppearanceBelovedDestructivePopularityPernicious Author:William Shenstone
“The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.” LoveMeanCountryBearsNativePatriotismNationalismPatrioticPatriotism And NationalismNative Country Book:Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc
“Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.” MenMeanDoeSometimesUsePurposeAnswersRespectRegardAcquireInsistingHighwaymen Book:Essays on Men and Manners Source: Essays on Men and Manners