The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of ShaftesburyNothing 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.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of ShaftesburyRemember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of ShaftesburyThe face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury