The First Thought Is Often The Best.

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 Or Disinterested, Because The Objects Of Them All Are Equally Self Or Somewhat Else.

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.

Remember Likewise There Are Persons Who Love Fewer Words, An Inoffensive Sort Of People, And Who Deserve Some Regard, Though Of Too Still And Composed Tempers For You.

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.

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