It is really no more than a special application of the principle of causation, and whether the working out of that principle has a good effect or a bad one, a moralizing, or a demoralizing, a progressive, or a retrogressive consequence is not "given" in the principle itself.
— from A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen

‘All,’ replied Challoner, ‘is not gold that glitters.
— from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson

It was in one of those half-frantic scenes of noise and revel, call it not gayety, which establish a heathen saturnalia in the midst of a Christian festival.
— from Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Though as a rule, Cetchy, I never go out with another fellow, except Corbould now and then.
— from Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford

If the United States authorize an agent to make a bargain or purchase, the power of binding the United States for a reasonable consideration is necessarily given.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress