Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.