Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
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
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to,
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being
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