You are truly splendid, noble, and sublime, my poet, my beloved, light of my eyes, flame of my heart, life of my life!
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

To some rationalizing readers such advocacy will seem a sad misuse of one's professional position.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

They’ll poke up a bit higher here, an’ push out a spike more there, an’ uncurl a leaf this day an’ another that.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Æquam memento rebus in arduis / Servare mentem, non secus in bonis /
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But, since it is certain that most men’s practices, and some men’s open professions, have either questioned or denied these principles, it is impossible to establish an universal consent, (though we should look for it only amongst grown men,) without which it is impossible to conclude them innate.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

And,’ added she musingly, ‘the thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Page 277 —Attich amended to Attic—"... a small measure, equivalent to 15 Attic drachms" Page 278 —fewerfew amended to feverfew—"AMACARUS, sweet-marjoram, feverfew" Page 279 —Baracuda amended to Barracuda—"Barracuda, a fish, ℞ 158 " Page 279 —COLOSASIUM amended to COLOCASIUM—"Beans ... —— “Egyptian,” see COLOCASIUM" Page 279 —orrage amended to orage—"... the arrack or orage, also spinach, according to ..." Page 279 —omitted ℞ added—"BUBULA, Beef, flesh of oxen, p. 30 , ℞ 351 , 352 " Page 280 —forno amended to Forno—"... with our illustrations of the Casa di Forno of Pompeii ..."
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

I smile bitterly at the delusion I have so long nourished, and still more, when I reflect that I have exchanged it for another as delusive, as false, but to which I now cling with the same fond trust.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You see, about six months ago I discovered all regarding Hillars and his fall from grace.
— from Arms and the Woman by Harold MacGrath

Even in Germany in 1806, and still more in 1813, the troops were often in dire distress for food.
— from Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 by Edward (Edward A.) Foord

If they had no heathen literature, they could still discuss theological dogmas; if they had no amusements, they could meet together in their synagogues; if they had no king, they accepted the government of the high-priest; if they had no powerful nobles, they had the aristocratic Sanhedrim, which represented their leading men; if they were disposed to contention, as so many persons are, they could dispute about the unimportant shibboleths which their religious parties set up as matters of difference,--and the more minute, technical, and insoluble these questions were, the fiercer probably grew their contests.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord

After many negotiations and delays, it was agreed that Cæsar would exert his influence to secure an alliance between the Roman people and Ptolemy, on condition that Ptolemy paid him the sum of six thousand talents, equal to about six millions of dollars.
— from History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt by Jacob Abbott

The dancing fountain, the great cascade, even the smaller fountains (wonderful objects any where, except here, where there are so many more wonderful) sparkle through the foliage; while all is backed by magnificent hanging woods, and the high lands of Derbyshire, extending from the hills of Matlock to Stony Middleton.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

"I don't see how those girls managed to accomplish so much in so short a time," remarked the dean to Miss Duncan.
— from Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Josephine Chase

Will you come and see me at Hadyja on your return?"
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

Page 379 [Pg 379] "There are so many different things being accomplished that it's hard to name them all, but you can see for yourself that some one has got to collect the figures on fisheries in order to determine how the industry is progressing.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

The second on a prairie on the east shore about sixty miles above.
— from Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk by Benjamin Drake