About William Shenstone: William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
