Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.
Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: The judge leaned back in his chair and beckoned to Mr. Andrews.
Sent 2: It was finished.
Sent 3: Spear was free, and from different parts of the courtroom people were moving toward the door.
Sent 4: Their numbers showed that the friends of the young man had been many.
Sent 5: Mr. Thorndike felt a certain twinge of disappointment.
Sent 6: Even though the result relieved and pleased him, he wished, in bringing it about, he had had some part.
Sent 7: He begrudged to Isaacs & Sons the credit of having given Spear his liberty.
Sent 8: His morning had been wasted.
Sent 9: He had neglected his own interests, and in no way assisted those of Spear.
Sent 10: He was moving out of the railed enclosure when Andrews called him by name.
Sent 11: "His honor," he said impressively, "wishes to speak to you." The judge leaned over his desk and shook Mr. Thorndike by the hand.
Sent 12: Then he made a speech.
Sent 13: The speech was about public-spirited citizens who, to the neglect of their own interests, came to assist the ends of justice, and fellow-creatures in misfortune.
Sent 14: He purposely spoke in a loud voice, and every one stopped to listen.
Sent 15: "The law, Mr. Thorndike, is not vindictive," he said.
Sent 16: "It wishes only to be just.
Sent 17: Nor can it be swayed by wealth or political or social influences.
Sent 18: But when there is good in a man, I, personally, want to know it, and when gentlemen like yourself, of your standing in this city, come here to speak a good word for a man, we would stultify the purpose of justice if we did not listen.
Sent 19: I thank you for coming, and I wish more of our citizens were as unselfish and public-spirited." It was all quite absurd and most embarrassing, but inwardly Mr. Thorndike glowed with pleasure.
Sent 20: It was a long time since any one had had the audacity to tell him he had done well. 
Question: What was the beginning of the judge's speech mainly about?.
A: 
People who neglect their own interests for others.