For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

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.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

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

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.