It makes me wretched, Wilhelm, to think that there should be men incapable of appreciating the few things which possess a real value in life.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But let the worst happen; Should Don Gaston be irreconcileable, my Relations will vie with each other in making you forget his loss: and you will find in my Father a substitute for the Parent of whom I shall deprive you.' 'Don Raymond,' replied Agnes in a firm and resolute voice, 'I love my Father: He has treated me harshly in this one instance; but I have received from him in every other so many proofs of love that his affection is become necessary to my existence.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

“Ah,” replied Vestalia, “it looks as if your father must have destroyed some of our correspondence.
— from March Hares by Harold Frederic

Think not I have abandoned myself to the capricious gusts of passion; or that my love of uncontaminated and rigorous virtue is lessened.
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

Here and there are a few plants in pots, or a feeble attempt at rearing vegetables in little garden patches which fill in any foot of level among the many-cornered buildings; while in one cranny grows the solitary date-palm which Saint Saba planted more than 1300 years ago.
— from The Holy Land by John Kelman

“To me it is merely an object of affection,” replied Vanda; “I live in my heart
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Soon she could not imagine finding any real value in life without it.
— from December Love by Robert Hichens

There are plenty of writers, too, like William Black and Clark Russell and Conan Doyle, concerning the lasting value of whose stories there might easily be a question, yet who do often contrive to be healthily amusing, and who furnish the means of creating a pleasant and restful vacuity in lives otherwise too full.
— from Talks on the study of literature. by Arlo Bates

Independently of their use as accumulators, secondary zinc batteries may be utilized as regulating voltameters in lighting by incandescence, for deadening piston strokes, attenuating the irregularities in speed, and covering accidental stoppages.—
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various