He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

"Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them like a man. Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly. Don't let the soldiers come in and cut down poor-creatures who are driven mad. I see one there who is. If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak to them, man to man."

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.