A sentimental conscience is the most tiresome of all altruists, and wilfully to indulge in remorse that we have not justly incurred is to blunt our consciences for real offences.
"The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]"
Richard Le Gallienne
Human nature knows millions of these inconsequent little feuds, springing up and flourishing apart from any basis of racial, political, religious or economic causes, as a hint perhaps to crass unseeing altruists that enmity has its place and purpose in the world as well as benevolence.
"The Unbearable Bassington"
Saki
Therefore we are altruists in charity, missionaries of humanity, patriots at home.
"The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner"
Charles Dudley Warner