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

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

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