At last, however, he began to think — as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ough… - Charles Dickens

it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Her heart — is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of. And she says, that lady rich and beautiful that I can never come near, 'Only put me in that empty place, only try how little I mind myself, only prove what a world of things I will do and bear for you, and I hope that you might even come to be so much better than you are, through me who am so much worse, and hardly worth the thinking of beside you.

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.