Life is wonderful, ay, but that it should be a little lengthened is not wonderful.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

'At least Lucknow is nearer to Benares than Umballa.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

All lower study is tasteless; all lower life is neglected, forgotten.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Well, we have got the Turks on the run, at least, and Venice is safe and Lord Lansdowne is not to be taken seriously; and I see no reason why we should be downhearted.'
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
— from The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

One must notice it; for a lovely lake is not as common a thing along the railways of Australia as are the dry places.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

But just in proportion as less labor is necessary, more talent or genius is required; and between such qualities and the drudgery of research no comparison is possible, in respect either of their intrinsic value, or of the estimation in which they are held.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Their ill word is no injury to fools, who are either altogether insensible of any affront, or at least lay it not much to heart.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

Gibbon's house, at Lake Lemon, is now a hotel; one room of which is devoted to the sale of Bibles.
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

In 1908 two Indians, when crossing a large lake in Northern Ontario in a small canoe, came across a big bull moose swimming from an island to the mainland.
— from Plain Tales of the North by Thierry Mallet

I will plunge a sword into my bosom, and commit an injustice to myself, which through a long life I never committed to others.
— from The Anatomy of Suicide by Forbes Winslow

There is preserved in a law library in New York the much-worn copy of the statutes of Indiana enacted in the first years of the existence of that State.
— from The French in the Heart of America by John H. (John Huston) Finley

At least, let it not be supposed that she had ever acknowledged a spark of love for Conway Dalrymple.
— from The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

Barrere moves, that the city be destroyed, and that a column be erected on the spot, with these words engraven on it, "Lyons waged war against liberty; Lyons is no more.
— from Historical Epochs of the French Revolution With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death by Henry Goudemetz

The crowned head of King George the First was the mark at which he really sought to aim, but that, alas, was far beyond the reach of a little lad in New England.
— from Master Simon's Garden: A Story by Cornelia Meigs

The audience listened languidly, if not drowsily.
— from A Century of Christian Service: Kensington Congregational Church, 1793-1893 by C. Silvester (Charles Silvester) Horne