The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for ''as he thinketh within himself, so is he.'' Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.
Lord Shaftesbury
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
Lord Shaftesbury
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.
Lord Shaftesbury
True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
Lord Shaftesbury
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.