Further, when to this evil constitution of body evil forms of government are added and evil discourses are uttered in private as well as in public, and no sort of instruction is given in youth to cure these evils, then all of us who are bad become bad from two causes which are entirely beyond our control.
— from Timaeus by Plato

Then on the tea-table, back of the tray, or on the shelves of a separate "curate," a stand made of three small shelves, each just big enough for one good-sized plate, are always two, usually three, varieties of cake and hot breads.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

I know I ought to get rid of this care, and Mary and I should not try to live here alone, but every foot of ground is sacred to me, and I love every article bought by the dear father of my children."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

But although there may exist no contradiction in our judgement, it may nevertheless connect conceptions in such a manner that they do not correspond to the object, or without any grounds either a priori or a posteriori for arriving at such a judgement, and thus, without being self-contradictory, a judgement may nevertheless be either false or groundless.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

May we be ever favored of God.
— from The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick

With her small head and magnificent hair and eyes, she would have had quite beauty enough for one girl without being so erect and stately.
— from A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel by Coghill, Harry, Mrs.

"Plenty good enough and big enough for old Grayson's grandchild!" observed the wife, turning up her aristocratic nose in supreme contempt.
— from Mildred at Roselands A Sequel to Mildred Keith by Martha Finley

It is singular that I have not found in any one book, written by English, French, or German travellers, any remarks made upon a custom which the Americans have of almost entirely living, I may say, in the basement of their houses; and which is occasioned by their difficulties in housekeeping with their insufficient domestic establishments.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

But this morning I got a box by express, full of goodies, direct from home.
— from The Drummer Boy by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

On drawing nearer we perceived to our disappointment that they 342 were not inhabited by Europeans; for our guide soon discovered that it was a halt of a Mongolian prince, surrounded with his court.
— from From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin by Victor Meignan

Shut out, except at short and uncertain intervals, from the Light of Life, he passes through the summer of his probation with a well-proportioned but empty form of godliness; and the Lord, when he comes at the close to gather the wheat into his garner, finds on that portion of the field only the rustling chaff of a hollow profession, instead of the fruit unto holiness that grows on living souls.
— from The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

Beside him stood the Dauphin, his great blue eyes full of grave thoughtfulness.
— from Ten Boys from History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

A year ago we 'progressives' cried aloud in bitter earnestness for one great, overwhelming effort, for decisive measures, and after debating, and delaying, and plucking all the feathers from our bird, they threw him, half-starved, at Bull Run, and then cried: There is your victory!
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Delight stepped slowly, lest she run into the North Pole, whose brave explorer floundered on, guiding his snowshoes as best he might.
— from Marjorie in Command by Carolyn Wells