Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason,…

- Ann Radcliffe

If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustai…

- Ann Radcliffe

O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishmen…

- Ann Radcliffe

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear,…

- Ann Radcliffe

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.

- Ann Radcliffe

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

- Ann Radcliffe

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

- Ann Radcliffe

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

- Ann Radcliffe

I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!

- Ann Radcliffe