In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good. . . In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.
They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.