The Principle We Call Self-love Never Seeks

The Satisfaction That Accompanies Good Acts Is Itself Not The Motivation Of The Act; Satisfaction Is Not The Motive, But Only The Consequence.

The First Thought Is Often The Best.

In All Common Ordinary Cases, We See Intuitively At First View What Is Out Duty, What Is The Honest Part. This Is The Ground Of The Observation, That The First Thought Is Often The Best. In These Cases, Doubt And Deliberation Is Itself Dishonesty; As It Was In Balaam Upon The Second Message.

Thus Self-love As One Part Of Human Nature, And The Several Particular Principles As The Other Part, Are, Themselves, Their Objects And Ends, Stated And Shown.

People Habituate Themselves To Let Things Pass Through Their Minds, As One May Speak, Rather Than To Think Of Them. Thus By Use They Become Satisfied Merely With Seeing What Is Said, Without Going Any Further. Review And Attention, And Even Forming A Judgment, Becomes Fatigue; And To Lay Anything Before Them That Requires It, Is Putting Them Quite Out Of Their Way.