“But,” said Albert, emitting a volume of smoke and balancing his chair on its hind legs, “only madmen, or blockheads like us, ever do travel.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

" I think you should all be locked up," Ellie Dawson said severely as she dragged her husband, blue-faced and shivering, out of an icy shower one bitter morning.
— from The Coffin Cure by Alan Edward Nourse

The true biographer loves uncritically every detail that has to do with his subject, as a portrait-painter loves every detail that has to do with the appearance of his sitter.
— from George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by T. Martin Wood

She did not feel called upon to add that her own under-jacket had begun life upon Evelyn Desmond's godown shelves.
— from Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver

26 Just live as you would have your brother live; unfold each day as does the flower; for earth is yours, and heaven is yours, and God will bring you to your own.
— from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of The Church Universal by Levi

It is as real as actual life, and as poetical as Milton's Paradise, not great with ponderous thoughts, but running over with exquisite poetry, suggesting new worlds of beauty lying under every day things....
— from The Fisher Girl by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

It was useful once, but it is becoming less useful every day, and pari passu men are becoming more moral.”
— from The New Optimism by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

A short time previous to this, he had admired the operation of figures, but labored under every disadvantage, for want of education.
— from Curiosities of Human Nature by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

The moral would be “let us eat, drink, and be merry,” for to-morrow—or if not this to-morrow, then upon some to-morrow, unaffected by 224 our empirical memories, reflections, inventions, and idealizations—the cosmic automobile arrives.
— from The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought by John Dewey