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

The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

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

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.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

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.