Anthony Ashley Cooper 7th Earl Of Shaftesbury Inspirational Quotes (27)

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.

Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind.