C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Disinterestedness
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
B. R. Haydon.
Men of the world hold that it is impossible to do a disinterested action, except from an interested motive; for the sake of admiration, if for no grosser, more tangible gain. Doubtless they are also convinced that, when the sun is showering light from the sky, he is only standing there to be stared at.
Author Unknown.
The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind, improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling. We should cherish kind wishes, for a time may come when we may be enabled to put them in practice.
Miss Mitford.