Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.
Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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