Mrs. Cholmondeley considers him extremely clever: she says he will push his way by his talents; all I know is, that he does little more than sigh in my presence, and that I can wind him round my little finger."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Her solemn warning ne'er despise, Do boldly what her lips advise; For things to come her eye can see, And with her words events agree.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Complete social unselfishness, in other words, can hardly exist; complete social suicide hardly occur to a man's mind.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

For if Criseyde hadde erst compleyned sore, 825 Tho gan she pleyne a thousand tymes more.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Stowe John Esten Cooke Louisa M Alcott Henry D Thoreau Francis Parkman Bret Harte George W. Cable Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman William Dean Howells Mark Twain Joel Chandler Harris Edmund Clarence Stedman Thomas Bailey Aldrich Joaquin Miller John Fiske Edward Everett Hale OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE CHAPTER
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Conditions have entirely changed since his day, and we are busy with questions of which Marx never dreamed and of which he could not foretell.
— from Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel Peter Orth

One almost comes to feel that, though the path is a bit more rugged, self-help develops in the college boy, as in the football player, a keener sense of duty; gives to him a firmer confidence, and leaves no obstacles that he by constant, honest effort cannot surmount.
— from College Men Without Money by Carl Brown Riddle

By this course, her exportations can speedily be made to equal her capital; importations will be nothing, and our gain will be, all which the ocean will have swallowed up.
— from What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader by Frédéric Bastiat

From a toddling child her eye carried sunshine and her presence peace.
— from Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Marshall Mather

Tubby hastened to chuck his empty cocoanut shell off the top of the dam as he saw that a social ceremony was going forward.
— from The Boy Scouts at the Panama Canal by John Henry Goldfrap

It has remained at the same rate ever since, and is not at this time equal to the most moderate expences I can live at; yet I have never complained, and always conceiving it my duty to bear a share of the inconveniences of the country, have ever cheerfully submitted to them.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

Then it would have been a long time before he could have earned clothes suitable to go to church."
— from Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie