As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment — Joseph Butler
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. — Joseph Butler
For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we — Joseph Butler
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil — Joseph Butler
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest — Joseph Butler
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt — Joseph Butler
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. — Joseph Butler
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing — Joseph Butler
The sum of the whole is plainly this: the nature of man considered in his single capacity — Joseph Butler
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. — Joseph Butler