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

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

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.

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.

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

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.