Acting on principle always helps others : it is the most catching thing in the world, whereas our words and our personal influence do not help them one bit, unless God is speaking through us, and making us His instruments, which He will not do if we are behaving wrongly.
— from Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby

The corn and fruits of this island will not keep above a year; and unless the corn is buried under ground, it spoils in four months.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

After devouring the head of a bird he will leave the body, unless game is scarce.
— from Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe

Many of them, like Cyprian, Clement, Hilary, Martin of Tours, had been born and educated in heathenism; while others, like Basil, Gregory, Origen, Athanasius, Jerome, and Augustine, though born under Gospel influences, studied heathen philosophy and poetry at the instance of their Christian parents.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

The effect of the Allied blockade upon Germany is suggested by the accompanying chart.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

Some of them are filled with oval pebbles of a brilliant white color, and others with a yellow frost-work which builds up gradually in solid stalagmites.
— from Wonders of the Yellowstone by James (Geologist) Richardson

The expurgated text edited by W. J. Rolfe has been used generally in schools, as also the Hudson Shakespeare, edited by Rev. H. N. Hudson.
— from Comfort Found in Good Old Books by George Hamlin Fitch