Her agents used to say that it was impossible to mistake her directions; and thus her business was usually well done.

There was no room, in her case, for the ordinary doubts, censures, and sneers about the misapplication of bounty.
'Her taste did not lie in the "Charity-Ball" direction; her funds were not lavished in encouraging hypocrisy and improvidence among the idle and worthless; and the quality of her charity was, in fact, as admirable as its quantity.

Her chief aim was the extension and improvement of popular education; but there was no kind of misery that she heard of that she did not palliate to the utmost, and no kind of solace that her quick imagination and sympathy could devise that she did not administer.
'In her methods, she united consideration and frankness with singular success.

For one instance among a thousand: A lady with whom she had had friendly relations some time before, and who became impoverished in a quiet way by hopeless sickness, preferred poverty with an easy conscience to a competency attended by some uncertainty about the perfect rectitude of the resource.

Lady Byron wrote to an intermediate person exactly what she thought of the case.