The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.
Joseph ButlerCompassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
Joseph ButlerPeople might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
Joseph ButlerThe 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.
Joseph Butler