William Shenstone May Quotations

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.