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!

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life... My precept is, "Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something".

Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.

...the ladies of Cranford always dressed with chaste elegance and propriety...