34 Quotes by Lord Shaftesbury

It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.

If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural justice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout.

Tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.

Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.

Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.