When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
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