Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.