Lord Shaftesbury World Quotations

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

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.

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

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

Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.