Those kings may well put on a good air before us still: for that have THEY learned best of us all at present!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

IN WHICH MR. PICKWICK THINKS HE HAD BETTER GO TO BATH; AND GOES ACCORDINGLY B ut surely, my dear sir,’ said little Perker, as he stood in Mr. Pickwick’s apartment on the morning after the trial, ‘surely you don’t really mean—really and seriously now, and irritation apart—that you won’t pay these costs and damages?’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Is it not strange that tens of thousands of boys and girls are brought up so as to make them unfit for every work (they return home from school, and their two books are carried for them by a servant)?
— from What Shall We Do? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This poultice is the only remedial means worth recalling: all the others which are given are based upon superstition or some vulgar error.
— from Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence: The Various Causes and the Rational Means of Cure by J.-F. (Jean-François) Dancel

Already have I cause to envy thee, In that thou knowest nothing of these woes; For blessed are the days of ignorance, When joy and grief are both untasted still.
— from Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Sophocles

Make us all good and bring us safe to heaven at last.
— from Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann

"He rase, an' teuk up 's bannet, an' loupit the hedge, an' gae a blast upo' 's horn, an' gethered his men, an' steppit aboord his boat, ower by Puffie Heid yonner, an' awa to Norrowa' ower the faem, 'an was never hard tell o' in Scotlan' again.
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

Just after we run her aboard and grappled, aye blew up she did and nigh took us wi' her.
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

A good authority before us says:—In a quadrille, or other dance, while awaiting the music, or while unengaged, a lady and gentleman should avoid long conversations, as they are apt to interfere with the progress of the dance; while, on the other hand, a gentleman should not stand like an automaton, as though he were afraid of his partner, but endeavor to render himself agreeable by those "airy nothings" which amuse for the moment, and are in harmony with the occasion.
— from Beadle's Dime Book of Practical Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen Being a Guide to True Gentility and Good-Breeding, and a Complete Directory to the Usages and Observances of Society by Anonymous

The early introduction of a certain amount of quantitative experimentation in the course makes for habits of order and neatness in experimentation and guards against bringing up "sloppy" chemists.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper