William Shenstone Character Quotations

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.