Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

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

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

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

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

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.