The lover becomes a spendthrift; he is rich enough for it.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“I don’t believe anything so horrible,” I recollect saying; “no, let us put it definitely, my dear, that I don’t.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Having done at Woolwich, we to Deptford (it being very cold upon the water), and there did also a little more business, and so home, I reading all the why to make end of the “Bondman” (which the oftener I read the more I like), and begun “The Duchesse of Malfy;” which seems a good play.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The highest amount of land assessment paid by a single Holeya is Rs. 279 in the Bangalore district, and the lowest six pies in the Kolar and Mysore districts.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The Greek name for the Snowflake is the Leucoion—literally the white Violet—and I think it possible that in a passage of Ovid, where he speaks of the Violet, the Poppy, and the Lily being broken by a storm, he is really thinking of the Snowflake.
— from A Year in a Lancashire Garden Second Edition by Henry Arthur Bright

In a letter of September 21, addressed to her friend and correspondent Sainte-Beuve, whom she had made the confidant of her previous depression and strange moods of gloom, she writes of herself as lifted out of such dangers by a happiness beyond any she had imagined, restoring youth to her heart—the happiness accorded her by the poet's society and his preference for her own.
— from Famous Women: George Sand by Bertha Thomas

"The puss has her claws out," murmured Mrs. Byrd, as she heard in reply to her congratulations: "I think it is a misfortune—a—a—what will my mother say?
— from The Red City: A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

The absence of Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence had thrown the entire responsibility of the editorship of our paper, Votes for Women , on her shoulders, but as she has invariably risen to meet new responsibility, she conducted the paper with skill and discretion.
— from My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst

I cannot conscientiously say that he gave me the idea that he was exactly fitted to take command of the Channel Fleet, but after seeing him I retained the impression that he would have felt entirely at home on the quarter-deck of a Thames Steamboat.
— from Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 3, 1887 by Various