William Shenstone Quotes About Judgment

Quotes about: Judgment

• A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

  William Shenstone

  Life, Success, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.143

• Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

  William Shenstone

  Judgment, Pupils, Wit

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.159

• When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

  William Shenstone

  Trials, Matter, Way

• 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.

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Musical, Style

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.116

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