Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

This wisdom has cast out the fear of material evils, and dreads only that the divine should not come down and be worthily entertained among us.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Near it was a little garden, enclosed in a hurdle fence, with tables and chairs set out in it, and in the midst of a thicket of wretched thornbushes stood a single solitary cypress, dark and beautiful.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I well remember, among others, the treatise of the noble Italian, Coelius Secundus Curio, “ De Amplitudine Beati Regni Dei; ” St. Austin’s great work, the “City of God;” and Tertullian’s “ De Carne Christi ,” in which the paradoxical sentence “ Mortuus est Dei filius; credible est quia ineptum est: et sepultus resurrexit; certum est quia impossibile est, ” occupied my undivided time, for many weeks of laborious and fruitless investigation.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The way of using it is to boil it in white wine, or other convenient decoction, and boil it very little.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

I know what I will do—I am sure it will be best—no matter what happens I will stick to the raft as long as her timbers hold together, but when the sea breaks her up I will swim for it; I do not see how I can do any better than this.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Ang musika makabúgaw sa kaláay, Music can drive away boredom.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And in the 10th year of the same Edward, Henry Wales being mayor, a great controversy did arise between the said mayor, and the merchants of the Haunce of Almaine, about the reparations of Bishopsgate, then likely to fall, for that the said merchants enjoyed divers privileges in respect of maintaining the said gate, which they now denied to repair; for the appeasing of which controversy the king sent his writ to the treasurer and barons [
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

In the other, enlightened into the nature of rights , the principles of justice, and the dictates of the law of love, unprovoked by wrongs, with cool deliberation, and by system, they perpetrate these acts upon those to whom they owe unnumbered obligations for whole lives of unrequited service.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

And hereof are witnesses all the companies of the ships which were then present; so that hardly a man could draw a buckett of water cleere of some corruption.
— from The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt, in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593 Reprinted from the Edition of 1622 by Hawkins, Richard, Sir

"Let's have a party—an old-fashioned Oz party," proposed Ozma when the excitement had calmed down a bit.
— from The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island by Ruth Plumly Thompson

St. Giles's Hospital .—The celebrated Dr. Andrew Boorde rented for many years the Master's house.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 by Various

Moreover, it was pointed out that the conditions that gave rise to such remarkable and dangerous phenomena are due to the interaction between the warm moist air overhanging the Gulf stream and the cold dry air brought over it by northwesterly winds from the coast, and from over the cold inshore current, and the greater the differences of temperature and moisture, the greater the resulting energy of action.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 1, October, 1888 by Various

They build castles because it's the smartest thing they can do, and because grand people always did it a long time ago.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Although the glories of its coaching days are but memories of the past, and notwithstanding that the motorists pass so unpretentious a building for the more attractive-looking King's Arms, the despised of the modern traveller has retained a portion of its old-time custom and prosperity, by reason of its being the inn at which the carriers' carts deposit their morning and take up their evening passengers.
— from The Heart of Wessex by Sidney Heath

She inveigles a young soldier from his duty, leads him into crime, deceives and betrays him, and finally meets her death at his hand.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

Dr. Maclaren has studied the art of compression with great success, and no teacher of a class could desire anything better for his purpose than these lessons.
— from The Life of David: As Reflected in His Psalms by Alexander Maclaren