What infuriates and enrages someone else saddens him — the sign of a superior heart.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from an 1856 letter to his older brother, written in Siberia while he was stationed at a labor camp, surfaced by Maria Popova. The young friend he describes lent him money and “blushes when I start up about my debt” — which Popova reads as generosity with no ledger attached.