"Miranda never lacks compassion, even to common beggars -- especially toward those who are old or sick, or full of sores, or who lack eyes or limbs. If a poor old traveler tells her that he has neither strength nor food nor money left, she never tells him that she cannot relieve him because he may be a cheat or because she does not know him. But she relieves him because he is a stranger and unknown to her. Miranda considers that our blessed Savior and his apostles were kind to beggars-- that they spoke comfortably with them, healed their diseases, and restored eyes and limbs to the lame and blind. Miranda, therefore, never treats beggars with disregard and aversion, but she imitates the kindness of our Savior and his apostles. Though she cannot work miracles for their relief, yet she relieves them with the power which she has." William Law