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 goodne…

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

The heart is never neutral.

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of whi…

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native wor…

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

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

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury