“She kissed the boy, and said, caressing him, 'It is for thine own dear sake.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

It is called happier if it enjoys some or many other good things which are not essential to virtue; and happiest of all, if it lacks not one of the good things which pertain to the body and the soul.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He was again, in 1621, promoted in the peerage to be Viscount Saint-Albans; his patent particularly celebrating his “integrity in the administration of justice.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

He is the person most interested in his own well-being: the interest which any other person, except in cases of strong personal attachment, can have in it, is trifling, compared with that which he himself has; the interest which society has in him individually (except as to his conduct to others) is fractional, and altogether indirect: while, with respect to his own feelings and circumstances, the most ordinary man or woman has means of knowledge immeasurably surpassing those that can be possessed by any one else.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

"Wait, thou ungrateful creature," cried he, "it is not enough to drive thee forth, I will mark thee so that thou wilt no more dare to show thyself amongst honest tailors."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Let him not come hither; it is the foul-mouth'dst rogue in England.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

You see, if you bring one of them home, and one remains behind with the other, there will be three persons there when one of you comes back for that other, for some one must drive the buggy back, and three can’t come home in it.”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Thorpe, C. J., to Belknap: "There are some covenants on which no one shall have an action, but the party to the covenant, or his heir, and some covenants have inheritance in the land, so that whoever has the land by alienation, or in other manner, shall have action of covenant; [or, as it is stated in Fitzherbert's Abridgment, /1/
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He laughed at the police and the cheated husbands, indulged in Venus and Bacchus to excess, sacrificed to the god of pederasty, and gamed incessantly.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Although the passers-by could hear (it is true they could not comprehend), Barbillon appeared so delighted that he could not help saying to his companion: "Come and 'lush a drain of red tape,' Nicholas; the old mot swallows the bait, hook and all.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue

They curtailed his income in a moment of anger, but soon afterwards reinstated it.
— from Bach by C. F. Abdy (Charles Francis Abdy) Williams

But a majority of the committee of safety and of the convention, held it in vain for Virginia then to attempt any thing by water.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

"Here me put them to philosophical use, to constitute a well-proportioned edifice, through which you are to make pass the crude material, analogous to a candidate commencing his initiation into our Mysteries.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

An article of property found during the day was carried to an old chief’s lodge; if it were so light that he could hold it in his hand and walk through the camp, he would pass around and inquire whose it was.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

Here, as chance had it, I encountered a stout man on his horse coming up for the fair, and, laying him in the mud, I mounted and rode as hard as the nag would carry me towards the south.
— from The High Toby Being further chapters in the life and fortunes of Dick Ryder, otherwise Galloping Dick, sometime gentleman of the road by H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson

My mother was not able to make the trip on foot, and I conceived the brilliant idea of slinging a chair with ropes to two poles and having our Samoan men carry her in it.
— from The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

Because one here and there has concealed himself, is it for you, a married man, to retire when by going you might help to thrust back the Barbarians?
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 by Various

The landscape has compelled him; it is now he who must compel the landscape.
— from The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes