Good done from any other source or motive is necessarily self-seeking.

It is a common remark, with reference to the sanctions of a future life, that they create purely self-regarding motives.

Any proposal to increase disinterested action by moral obligation contains a self-contradiction; it is suicidal.

The rich may be made to give half their wealth to the poor; but in as far as they are _made_ to do it, they are not benevolent.
Law distrusts generosity and supersedes it.

If a man is expected to regard the happiness of others as an end in itself, and not as means to his own happiness, he must be left to his own impulses: 'the quality of mercy is not _strained_' The advocates of Utility may observe non-interference as well as others..