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Those whom we most love and admire are those to whom the thought of self seems never to occur; who do simply and with no ulterior aim with no thought whether it will be pleasant to themselves or unpleasant that which is good, and right, and generous. Is this still selfishness, only more enlightened? I do not think so. The essence of true nobility is neglect of self.
Do you want me to tell everything?" "Yes." "Everything that has weighed on my heart since I have been the victim of your terrible selfishness?" He had grown red with surprise and anger and he growled between his closed teeth: "Yes, tell me everything."
Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity's sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to charity and philanthropy.
Was I afraid of finding a bottomless abyss of empty selfishness? Ah! that's why I am so happy at this moment, because I find there is no bottomless abyss at all but good, healthy material, full of life. "It is not such a very dreadful circumstance that we are odd people, is it? For we really are odd, you know careless, reckless, easily wearied of anything.
He neither loves nor hates, nor, indeed, except for his own sake, is for a. second even faintly interested. He is there to make a book, and these people offer excellent material for a book. He is astonishingly industrious, and his minuteness is without end, but he never warms to his subject. His aim, in short, is one of total artistic selfishness.
Dick, "we are all selfish, every mother's son of us; and it is you blessed women who make us so." She looked at him, with softening eyes. "You are not selfish, Dick," she said. "I am," he answered; "and a long chalk worse than Ronnie. I combine ambition with my selfishness. I jolly well mean to get to the top of the tree, and I don't care how I get there.
How strange that it should have been so hard for Gypsy; that it had cost her a sacrifice to welcome her cousin; how strange that they could ever have quarreled so; how strange all those ugly, dark memories of the first few months they spent together—the jealousy, the selfishness, the dislike of each other, the constant fretting and jarring, the longing for the time that should separate them.
The agony that was eating out this poor father's heart was not peculiar to him; another shared it. In what he would have called his "wicked selfishness" the Reverend Septimus felt almost grateful for this sudden revelation. If it is a comfort to share our joys, it is a still greater comfort to share our torments. "Walk on with me, Anthony," he said. "I must hurry, I have every reason to hurry.
Pity the simple and affectionate creature! Lord Methuselah has not arrived until this moment: and see how the artless girl steps forward to greet him! In the midst of all the selfishness and turmoil of the world, how charming it is to find virgin hearts quite unsullied, and to look on at little romantic pictures of mutual love!
I feel it is a privilege to have seen so much of it; and by-and-by, when I am among strangers 'What do you mean? exclaimed Aunt Betsy, sharply; 'there is to be no such by-and-by; or, if there ever be such a time, it will be your making, not mine. You suit me capitally, and I mean to keep you as long as ever I can, without absolute selfishness.
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