The wise man dares not yield to a temptation, were it only for the terror that, if he do, he will yield the more readily again.

The commonplace critic, who recognizes life solely upon his own conscious level, mocks equally at the ideal and its antipode, incapable of recognizing the art of Shakespeare himself as true to the human nature that will not be human.
I have said that Letty did her best with what money Tom gave her; but when she came to find that he had not paid the lodging for two months; that the payment of various things he had told her to order and he would see to had been neglected, and that the tradespeople were getting persistent in their applications; that, when she told him anything of the sort, he treated it at one time as a matter of no consequence which he would speedily set right, at another as behavior of the creditor hugely impertinent, which he would punish by making him wait his time--her heart at length sank within her, and she felt there was no bulwark between her and a sea of troubles; she felt as if she lay already in the depths of a debtor's jail.

Therefore, sparing as she had been from the first, she was more sparing than ever.

Not only would she buy nothing for which she could not pay down, having often in consequence to go without proper food, but, even when she had a little in hand, would live like an anchorite.

She grew very thin; and, in-deed, if she had not been of the healthiest, could not have stood her own treatment many weeks.
Her baby soon began to show suffering, but this did not make her alter her way, or drive her to appeal to Tom.