To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.
Ann RadcliffePoverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
Ann RadcliffeOne act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann RadcliffeAnd since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
Ann Radcliffe