Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
Joseph ButlerThe principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
Joseph ButlerCompassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
Joseph Butler