Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?
Ann RadcliffeWhen the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
Ann RadcliffeI ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that i always feel revived, as by a new convinction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and wanting these, I relapse into doubt and often into despondency.
Ann RadcliffeOne act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radcliffe