A Right Mind, and Generous Affection, [has] more Beauty and Charm, than all other Symmetrys in the World besides. - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

The most natural Beauty in the World is Honesty, and Moral Truth. For all Beauty is Truth. True Features make the Beauty of a Face; and true Proportions the Beauty of Architecture; as true Measures that of Harmony and Musick.

'Twas the saying of [Georgias Leontinus apud Arist. Rhetor. lib. 3. cap. 18… which the Translator renders, Seria Risu, Risum Seriis discutere] an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.

'Tis the hardest thing in the world to be a good Thinker, without being a strong Self-Examiner.