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

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

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

We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.

The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.