People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

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

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

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

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once.

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.