… is from page 488 of Gordon Wood’s splendid 2009 volume, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815:
They often seemed more interested in what their benevolence could do for their own feelings than for what it could do for the objects of their compassion.


They often seemed more interested in what their benevolence could do for their own feelings than for what it could do for the objects of their compassion.
