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

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

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?

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.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.