A letter is a living soul, and so faithful an echo of the voice that speaks in it, that finer natures look upon a letter as one of love’s most precious treasures.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

We cannot regard it as our own life, because it is not felt to be a passion in our own body, but attaches itself rather to images we see moving about in the world; it is consequently, without hesitation, called the life of those images, or those creatures' souls.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

interrupted the Captain-General, twirling a chair about on one leg and smiling nervously, “if all the servants of my Excellency were like his Reverence, Padre Damaso, I should prefer myself to serve my Excellency!” [ 286 ] The reverend gentlemen, who were standing up physically, did so mentally at this interruption. “Won’t your Reverences be seated?” he added after a brief pause, moderating his tone a little.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The fact that he had spent the very year in which I had sunk into the lowest depths of undergraduate madness, studying at Heidelberg and not at Leipzig, had kept him unsullied by any share in my strange excesses, and when we now met again at Leipzig, in the spring of 1834, the only thing that we still had in common was the aesthetic aspiration of our lives, which we now strove by way of experiment to divert into the direction of the enjoyment of life.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

But that we may not be hindered from completing the natural arrangement of our laws, let us proceed to the conclusion of them in due order; for very possibly, if God will, the exposition of them, when completed, may throw light on our present perplexity.
— from Laws by Plato

It will be more difficult for us to believe in this love when the man is physically and mentally not an object of love.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

forasmuch, since Cydaddoli, v. to worship together Cydaid, n. a bag-full Cydair, a. unanimous Cydan, n. a small bag Cydbechu, v. to sin together Cydbell, a. equidistant Cydblaid, n. a confederate Cydbwys, a. of equal weight Cydbwyso, v. to equipoise Cyd-ddwyn, v. to concur Cyd-dynu, v. to concur Cyd-ddyoddef, v. to endure together Cyd-ddyrchafu, to exalt together Cydeffeithiad, n. connutrition Cydenw, n. namesake Cydenwad, n. agnomination Cydestyniad, n. co-extention Cydetifedd, n. a co-heir Cydetifeddu, v. to inherit jointly Cydetifeddwr, n. a joint inheritor Cydfa, n. a convention Cydfaethiad, n. connutrition Cydfantoli, v. to equilibrate Cydfloedd, n. conclamation Cydfod, n. co-existence; concord, or agreement Cydfodd, n. concord, agreemen Cydfrad, n. conspiracy, plot Cydfynediad, n. concomitancy Cydffrydiad, n. a confluence Cydffurfiad, n. a conformation Cydffurfio, v. to conform Cydgais, n. a competition Cydgam, n. dalliance; delay Cydganu, v. to sing in concert Cydgar, n. a correlative Cydgarenydd, n. consanguinity Cydgerdd, n. a symphony Cydgerddediad, n. concomitancy Cydglymiad, n. alligation Cydgnawd, n. carnal copulation Cydgor, n. united choir Cydgorffoli, v. to concorporate Cydgorffori, v. to consubstantiate Cydgwyniad, n. condolence Cydgyfaneddu, v. to occupy together Cydgyfaneddwr, a joint occupier Cydgyfarch, v. to congratulate Cydgyfarfod, n. coincidency Cydgyfartaledd, n. co-equalty Cydgyfathrach, n. consociation Cydgyfranogi, v. to intercomunicate Cydgylchiad, n. convolution Cydgyrchu, v. to assemble together Cydgyrhaeddiad, co-existension Cydhanfod, n. co-existence Cydiad, n. a joining; a coupling; a biting; a laying hold Cydiaith, a. of one language Cydiaw, v. to join; to couple; to bite, to take hold Cydieuad, n. conjugation Cydieuo, v. to yoke together Cydlais, n. consonance Cydlawenhau, v. to congratulate Cydlef, n. a joint shout Cydlefaru, v. to speak together Cydles, n. mutual advantage Cydlif, n. a conflux Cydlyniad, n. a cohesion Cydnabod, n. aquaintance,
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

The heavy cavalry was collected in a single strong reserve, composed of two divisions of cuirassiers, four of dragoons, and one of light cavalry.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

I have thus treated, as concisely as the important nature of the subjects would permit, of the powers, privileges, duties, and obligations of lodges, and have endeavored to embrace, within the limits of the discussion, all those prominent principles of the Order, which, as they affect the character and operations of the craft in their primary assemblies, may properly be referred to the Law of Subordinate Lodges.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

If one saw one tenth of the significant happenings that take place on his few acres of orchard, lawn, and vineyard in the course of the season, or even of a single week, what a harvest he would have!
— from Under the Maples by John Burroughs

Mrs. Stowe goes on to say, "That the tragical fate of Tom also has too many times had its parallel, there are living witnesses all over our land to testify."
— from Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman

The most superficial examination of any of our large urban parks will show that wherever elaborate construction and planting have been attempted they have failed from subsequent neglect to produce the effects expected from them, and that broad, quiet, pastoral and sylvan features are the only permanent and really valuable ones we can hope to attain in our great city parks.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various

Many a modern machine performs hammering, punching, riveting more effectively and swiftly than human hands, so that here an operator of little skill replaces a mechanic of much skill.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

In the course of time, facility of travelling [121] by railway, and of obtaining licensed carriages from the stands in towns, increased; and the farm-servants and the servants generally in the Border counties began to avail themselves of what was deemed a lawful practice by their superiors from other places.
— from Knowledge for the Time A Manual of Reading, Reference, and Conversation on Subjects of Living Interest, Useful Curiosity, and Amusing Research by John Timbs

The flat floor which is found in some of the craters may not improbably have arisen from an outflow of lava which has afterwards consolidated.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

As old Oliver Loving, the first Texas cowman that ever drove a herd, used to say, 'Never borrow trouble, or cross a river before you reach it.'
— from The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams

The coloration of the young is strikingly different from that of the adults (see account of O. leprieurii ), so the association of the young and adults was not made until individuals with intermediate patterns were obtained at Lago Agrio in May 1969.
— from A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William Edward Duellman

Another building, of more pretension, appeared on our left hand, on the brow of the ascent; our road turned the corner round this building, and beneath a grove of young trees the gothic buttresses and windows of grey stone peeped out.
— from Daisy by Susan Warner