Joseph Butler

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.