“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
“Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?""The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.”
“The girl who played Gwendolen stood out like a good deed in a naughty world.”
“What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?”
“No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for you…to be a better man.”
“I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk.”