The First Thought Is Often The Best.

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 Affections Rest In The External Things Themselves.

Happiness Does Not Consist In Self-love.

People Might Love Themselves With The Most Entire And Unbounded Affection, And Yet Be Extremely Miserable.

Thus There Is No Doubt The Eye Was Intended For Us To See With.

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.