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| S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. |
| William Shenstone |
| Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. William Shenstone. | 1 |
| Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. William Shenstone. | 2 |
| A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar. William Shenstone. | 3 |
| A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. William Shenstone. | 4 |
| The worst inconvenience of a small fortune is that it will not admit of inadvertency. William Shenstone. | 5 |
| True honour is to honesty what the Court of Chancery is to common law. William Shenstone. | 6 |
| Jealousy is the apprehension of superiority. William Shenstone. | 7 |
| The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite. William Shenstone. | 8 |
| Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness. William Shenstone. | 9 |
| They [liars] begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth appear like falsehood. William Shenstone. | 10 |
| I fancy the proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. William Shenstone. | 11 |
| Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature. William Shenstone. | 12 |
| A reserved man is in continual conflict with the social part of his nature, and even grudges himself the laugh into which he is sometimes betrayed. William Shenstone. | 13 |
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