Someone told me the other day—I believe it was Herbert Courtland—that it is the men who write books embodying a great and noble aim who make the closest bargains with their publishers.
— from Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore

" Though conversation, in its better part, May be esteemed a gift and not an art, Yet much depends, as in the tiller's toil, On culture and the sowing of the soil. "
— from The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms by John A. (John Albert) Cone

The poet Cowper wrote: "Though conversation in its better part May be esteemed a gift, and not an art; Yet much depends, as in the tiller's toil, On culture and the sowing of the soil."
— from From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Makepeace Thayer

But evil and good are not opposed as privation and habit, but as contraries, as the Philosopher shows (Praedic.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Amongst famous encyclopædias which have appeared, mention may be made of the French "Encyclopédie" ( q. v .); the "Encyclopædia Britannica," Edinburgh (1708-1771), now in its ninth edition (1889); the German "Encyclopedie," begun in 1818 by Ersch and Gruber, and not yet completed, although 170 volumes have appeared; while the largest of all is the Chinese encyclopædia, in 5020 vols., printed in Pekin in 1726.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Although any hostile differences between England and Germany are not very probable, in military circles in Germany an agitation has been going on for some years to ensure its possession by that country, as a necessary part of the coast defence of the empire; and this suggestion has been powerfully supported by Vice-Admiral Henck in the German Review , vol.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, January 1885 by Various

But although, on the one hand, I am to rebuke the wrong-doer, even when his wrong does not touch me personally, yet, the law adds, I am not to take into my own hands the avenging of wrongs, even when myself injured; neither am I to be envious and grudge any neighbour the good he may have; no, not though he be an ill-doer and deserve it not; but be he friend or foe, well-doer or ill-doer, I must love him as myself.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg

Though conversation in its better part May be esteemed a gift, and not an art, Yet much depends, as in the tiller’s toil, On culture and the sowing of the soil.
— from The Mentor A little book for the guidance of such men and boys as would appear to advantage in the society of persons of the better sort by Alfred Ayres