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

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

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.

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.

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

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

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