Views and sentiments, so opposite to known truth and to each other, could never have place, at the same time, in the same person.

All suspicion, therefore, of selfish regards, is here totally excluded.

It is a quite different principle, which actuates our bosom, and interests us in the felicity of the person whom we contemplate.

Where his natural talents and acquired abilities give us the prospect of elevation, advancement, a figure in life, prosperous success, a steady command over fortune, and the execution of great or advantageous undertakings; we are struck with such agreeable images, and feel a complacency and regard immediately arise towards him.
The ideas of happiness, joy, triumph, prosperity, are connected with every circumstance of his character, and diffuse over our minds a pleasing sentiment of sympathy and humanity.
[Footnote: One may venture to affirm, that there is no human nature, to whom the appearance of happiness (where envy or revenge has no place) does not give pleasure, that of misery, uneasiness.

This seems inseparable from our make and constitution.