Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

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

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.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

The 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.