Love is vanity,
Selfish in its beginning as its end. [ Byron ]

Glory built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt. [ Cowper ]

Sympathising and selfish people are alike given to tears. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate. [ Joseph Roux ]

The selfish, loving only themselves, are loved by no one: so, selfishness is moral suicide. [ De Gaston ]

It is the welfare of the whole from which every patriotic, and even every selfish, soul expects its own. [ Gentz ]

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest. [ Benjamin F. Butler ]

How much more mothers love their children than their husbands; the latter are often selfish and cruel; but children cannot separate their mother's from their affection. [ Mme. Paterson Bonaparte ]

How sacred, how beautiful, is the feeling of affection in pure and guileless bosoms! The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable may call it fable, the selfish and dissipated may affect to despise it; but the holy passion is surely of heaven, and is made evil by the corruptions of those whom it was sent to bless and to preserve. [ Mordaunt ]