Virtue Is Not To Be

The Private Interest Of The Individual Would Not Be Sufficiently Provided For By Reasonable And Cool Self-love Alone; Therefore The Appetites And Passions Are Placed Within As A Guard And Further Security, Without Which It Would Not Be Taken Due Care Of.

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.

Happiness Does Not Consist In Self-love.

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 Nor Hears Nor Perceives Things By Any Senses Like Ours; But In A Manner Infinitely More Perfect.

Men Are Impatient, And For Precipitating Things; But The Author Of Nature Appears Deliberate Throughout His Operations, Accomplishing His Natural Ends By Slow, Successive Steps. And There Is A Plan Of Things Beforehand Laid Out, Which, From The Nature Of It, Requires Various Systems Of Means, As Well As Length Of Time, In Order To The Carrying On Its Several Parts Into Execution.