The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.

Thoughts In Solitude (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) - ISBN: 9781429944076