William Shenstone Writing Quotations

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.