MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Murfreesborough, Tenn.: Your dispatches about General Davis and General Mitchell are received.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Love, duty, and good manners alike require it.
— from How to Behave: A Pocket Manual of Republican Etiquette, and Guide to Correct Personal Habits Embracing an Exposition of the Principles of Good Manners; Useful Hints on the Care of the Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-culture, and Behavior at Home; the Etiquette of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, the Street, the Church, Places of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., with Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies by Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) Wells

I'll have the clerks work through the noon hour, so that you will have ample time to catch your train." Dowsett and Guggenhammer manifested a relief that was almost obvious.
— from Burning Daylight by Jack London

Commission of Inquiry, work, Commission on the League of Nations, appointed, and Wilson's return to United States, meets, Wilson's draft as groundwork, meetings and report, Wilson's address, character of report and work, secrecy, Wilson's domination, Constantinople, disposition, Constitutional objections, to affirmative guaranty, and to Cecil plan, Council of Foreign Ministers, established, nickname, Council of Four, self-constituted, secrecy, "Olympians," gives only digest of Treaty to other delegates, Shantung bargain, See also Secret diplomacy.
— from The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative by Robert Lansing

Duty and God, morality and religion, are inseparable principles; all the efforts of a false philosophy have never succeeded, and never will [Pg 57] succeed, in disjoining them.
— from The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism by Ernest Naville

One hears it said not infrequently, it has been argued even in print with some solemnity, that Washington was, no doubt, a great man and rightly a national hero, but that he was not an American.
— from George Washington, Volume I by Henry Cabot Lodge

He put his library entirely at my disposal, and gave me a room in his house at Heath Field, near Halifax, whenever I felt inclined to avail myself of it, and had liberty to go there.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

Woman ministered to him with delight, and gladly made a resting-place for him in the quiet retreat of the home in Bethany.
— from The True Woman A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman vs. Ballot by Justin D. (Justin Dewey) Fulton

Erasmus' praise of Oxford climate is unusual from a foreigner; the more usual view is that of his friend Vives, who came to Oxford soon after as a lecturer at the new college of Corpus Christi; he writes from Oxford: "The weather here is windy, foggy and damp, and gave me a rough reception."
— from The Charm of Oxford by J. (Joseph) Wells