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

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

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?

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

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.

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

In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.