And yet I, O my God, Thou lifter up of my humility, and rest of my labour, Who hearest my confessions, and forgivest my sins: seeing Thou commandest me to love my neighbour as myself, I cannot believe that Thou gavest a less gift unto Moses Thy faithful servant, than I would wish or desire Thee to have given me, had I been born in the time he was, and hadst Thou set me in that office, that by the service of my heart and tongue those books might be dispensed, which for so long after were to profit all nations, and through the whole world from such an eminence of authority, were to surmount all sayings of false and proud teachings.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Verily, with insidious beauty do sea and life gaze upon me round about: O afternoon of my life!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[Pg 112] Exhibition of Paintings of Edward Moran, 9 , 18 , 19 Farewell Salute to John Ericsson, painting, description of, 95 , 96 Farragut, Admiral, 108 Fayal, 79 , 81 , 83 First Recognition of American Flag, painting, description of, 68 , 69 Fiske, John, 40 Flag, United States, 67 , 68 ; First Recognition of, painting, description of, 68 , 69 ; Captain Reid, 81 ; Resolutions of Congress authorizing, 67 , 81 Florida, 47 , 48 Greenland, Settlement of, 33 , 34 "Half-Moon," ship of Hudson, 53 , 105 Hamilton, James, 16 Hemans, Felicia, quotation from, 62 , 63 Herald , New York, quotation from, 9 Hobson, Richmond Pearson, 10 , 73 , 92 Holland, 53 , 54 , 59 Hopkins, Admiral, 27 Hudson, Henry, 53 to 55 ; Entering New York Bay, painting, description of, 55 Hudson River, Discovery of, 54 Iceland, 33 , 34 , 36 Iron versus Wood, Sinking of "Cumberland" by "Merrimac," painting, description of, 90 , 91 Jackson, Andrew, Defence of New Orleans, 82 ; Special Message to Congress about burning of frigate "Philadelphia," 75 Jefferson, Thomas, Special Message to Congress about Lieutenant Decatur, 74 Jones, John Paul, 10 , 68 , 106 ; Birth and Death, 69 ; Letter to Naval Committee, 68 La Motte Piquet, Admiral, 68 Landing of Lief Erickson in the New World, painting, description of, 35 , 36 , 101 Lincoln, Abraham, Special Message to Congress about Lieutenant George U. Morris, 92 ; about Lieutenant John Worden, 100 ; Commendation of Lieutenant John L. Worden, 99 , 100 Litigation about thirteen paintings, 8 Lloyd, Commodore, 79 , 82 Louisiana Purchase, 10 , 49 , 82 ; Exposition, 50 Manila Bay, Battle of, 107 "Mayflower," 59 , 60 , 61 "Merrimac," The, Confederate Ram, 87 to 92 , 95 , 97 to 101 ; of Spanish-American War, 92 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9 Midnight Mass over the Body of Ferdinand De Soto, painting, description of, 48 , 49 Mississippi River, Discovery of, 48 , 49 "Monitor," The, 92 , 95 , 97 to 101 Montojo, Admiral, 105 , 107 Moran, Annette, 8 , 20 ; Death, 21 ; Paintings, 20 Moran, Edward, 15 to 21 ; Academies, Clubs, Societies, 16 , 17 ; Birth, Death, 15 ; Marriage, 8 , 20 ; Paintings of, 17 , 18 Moran, Thomas, etching by, 96 Morris, George U., 10 , 88 , 89 , 92 Nantucket, 34 Napoleon, Louis, Arbitration about Brig "Armstrong," 81 Navy, Ships of, 68 , 73 , 74 , 79 , 82 , 88 , 90 , 97 ; Improvement, 87 , 97 , 105 Page 113
— from Thirteen Chapters of American History represented by the Edward Moran series of Thirteen Historical Marine Paintings by Theodore Sutro

Crazed with the lack of it, I always at last gave up my struggle, and with my heart filled with the tormented affections of a father, I went back to my watching and waiting, to my interest in her school, her clothes, her young friends, her health, her afternoon walks.
— from The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle by Richard Washburn Child

Previous also to the same abolition of slavery, there was another, and less gentle, use made of the lace-bark, by the masters of these same negroes.
— from The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid

"In the month of May, in the year MDLX, a time when sleep had refused to come to me because of my grief for my son's death: when I could get no relief from fasting nor from the flagellation I inflicted upon my legs when I rode abroad, nor from the game of chess which I then played with Ercole Visconti, a youth very dear to me, and like myself troubled with sleeplessness, I prayed God to have pity upon me, because I felt that I must needs die, or lose my wits, or at least give up my work as Professor, unless I got some sleep, and that soon.
— from Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study by W. G. (William George) Waters

I chanted a little Gloria under my breath, and asked him if he really meant it.
— from In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

361 The third point in the letter to Mr. Bright was the question whether a liberal government under Mr. Gladstone would not be exposed to a special degree of hostility, due to the peculiar antagonism that his personality excited.
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

You are not very wise, said Arabella, looking gravely upon Miss Glanville, to discover a thing which may haply create a quarrel between your brother and the unfortunate person you speak of: yet since this indiscretion cannot be recalled, we must endeavour to prevent the consequences of it.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

At last Catiline, unable to bear it any longer, got up, marched out of the Senate House, and left Rome.
— from Ancient Rome: The Lives of Great Men by Mary Agnes Hamilton