And if you refute me, I shall not be angry with you as you are with me, but I shall inscribe you as the greatest of benefactors on the tablets of my soul.
— from Gorgias by Plato

And won't there be crying out in Mayo the day I'm stretched upon the rope with ladies in their silks and satins snivelling in their lacy kerchiefs, and they rhyming songs and ballads on the terror of my fate?
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

Then a shastra or institute of Buddhist ontology in nine chapters, was composed, the title of which in English, is, Book of the Treasury of Metaphysics.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The mines continued to yield about fifty millions of gold a year; but little attention was paid to agriculture or to any business other than that of "mining," and, as the placer-gold was becoming worked out, the miners were restless and uneasy, and were shifting about from place to place, impelled by rumors put afloat for speculative purposes.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Now I am advised by others to try on my release to forget that I have ever been in a prison at all.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

There are some dreams that can only be imperfectly and vaguely described; and when I oblige myself to look back on this time of my life, I seem to be recalling such a dream.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“Now to think,” she broke out, “to think o’ me forgettin’ that there; an’ I thought I was goin’ to tell you first thing this mornin’.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

He had been on the tops of mountains whose heads were in the clouds and had looked down on other mountains when the sun rose and touched them with such light as made it seem as if the world were just being born.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

one instant, and—there was a crash, the horses were mixed up in a black mass, my chaise was rearing in the air, and I was rolling on the ground with all my bags and boxes on the top of me.
— from Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Go back as you came, and beware of touching them or me.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

My bottle of champagne remained almost untouched and when a celluloid ball bounced on the top of my head I did not scream “Whoopee!
— from Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

—Further limitations and modifications arise out of the origin of power, for the sources of power have an intimate bearing on the type of machine and media of transmission.
— from Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

Upon my word, sir, very romantic,—but I thank Heaven, I look for approbation in a better opinion than that of Mr Neville's.
— from The Dramatist; Or, Stop Him Who Can! A Comedy, in Five Acts by Frederick Reynolds

When Des Barres and his friends were within bowshot of the tower one man only was below it; and he lay where he had been stabbed.
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett

But it matters little for the future purity of the boy on the threshold of manhood whether he has [158] learned to love "the woman" in the dreamland of youth or in the very real world of life.
— from Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Maurice A. (Maurice Alpheus) Bigelow

In the course of your labours, you must often, Monsieur, have met with the names of these sectaries, known by the appellation of Assassins , whose religious principle consisted in blind obedience to that Old Man of the Mountains, who reigned only by murder, and the most horrible crimes.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

Where was the material for the nobler Social Order, where the hewn stones for the building of the Temple of Man?
— from Annie Besant: An Autobiography by Annie Besant