Lord ShaftesburyThinkers

Gravity is of the very essence of imposture: it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.

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.

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. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so. upon some probable grounds.