Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

True courage…has so little to do with Anger, that there lies always the strongest Suspicion against it, where this Passion is highest. The true Courage is the 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, pleasant, and free. Rage, we know, can make a Coward forget himself and fight. But what is done in Fury, or Anger, can never be plac’d to the account of Courage.

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.

Never did any Soul do good, but it came readier to do the same again, with more Enjoyment. Never was Love, or Gratitude, or Bounty practis'd but with increasing Joy, which made the Practiser still more in love with the fair Act.