Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.

- William Shenstone

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

- William Shenstone

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

- William Shenstone

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

- William Shenstone

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

- William Shenstone

A fool and his words are soon parted.

- William Shenstone

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

- William Shenstone

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

- William Shenstone

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence rece…

- William Shenstone