"I'll tell you, then," he said with heat, "I imagine the mainspring of all our actions is, after all, self-interest.

Now in the local institutions I, as a nobleman, see nothing that could conduce to my prosperity, and the roads are not better and could not be better; my horses carry me well enough over bad ones.

Doctors and dispensaries are no use to me.

An arbitrator of disputes is no use to me.