Racy gossip and old wives' tales are to be replaced by philosophic reflection and pictures of temperament.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

The Marquis was not proof against her beauty and sensibility; all the energy, with which he had first loved, returned, for his passion had been resisted by prudence, rather than overcome by indifference; and, since the honour of his family would not permit him to marry her, he had endeavoured to subdue his love, and had so far succeeded, as to select the then Marchioness for his wife, whom he loved at first with a tempered and rational affection.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"Matter" itself is evaporating, for it is being resolved by physical research into something which is intangible.
— from Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 by Alfred Russel Wallace

The feeling in question cannot well be realized by people reared in towns, who have, perhaps, never seen Gipsies, or heard much about them; but it is different with youths brought up in the country.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

Well, if a poet will be an impostor, he must prepare to be remembered by posterity rather for his fraud than his poetry.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

Morning Post , October 9, 1885.—‘A letter has been received by Principal Rainy, Edinburgh, and has been forwarded to the Home Secretary from St. Kilda.
— from Eighteenth Century Waifs by John Ashton

However irregular this practice, it will be regarded by political reasoners as one of the most early and most infallible symptoms of a regular, established liberty.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

Though [pg 252] the horrible cruelties which Rome employed against heresy were resorted to but rarely by Protestant rulers, yet the right of every man to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience was not acknowledged.
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

Shou’d Men be rated by Poetick Rules, Lord, what a Poll would there be rais’d from Fools!
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume IV by Aphra Behn