Then again every man of modesty and propriety would avoid drunkenness, for anger is next door neighbour to madness as some think, 550 but drunkenness lives in the same house: or rather drunkenness is madness, more short-lived indeed, but more potent also through volition, for it is self-chosen.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

From his Indian friends, particularly a boy of the same age who was his companion in the store, he learned the language as well as a white man has ever learned it, so that in his declining years it dwelt in memory more strongly than his mother tongue.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

But I have a veil—it is down: I may make shift yet to behave with decent composure.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

If I am anything, which I much doubt, I made myself so merely by labour.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I delight in Madame Merle,” said Ralph Touchett simply.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

And I entered into the very seat of my mind (which it hath in my memory, inasmuch as the mind remembers itself also), neither wert Thou there: for as Thou art not a corporeal image, nor the affection of a living being (as when we rejoice, condole, desire, fear, remember, forget, or the like); so neither art Thou the mind itself; because Thou art the Lord God of the mind; and all these are changed, but Thou remainest unchangeable over all, and yet hast vouchsafed to dwell in my memory, since I learnt Thee.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

At the first glance, one saw that it was divided into many masses, singularly distinct.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

He never smiles and looks happy; and, when I see him, instead of making me joyful, as it used to do, it makes me sad!”
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin

Why does ice melt more slowly when wrapped in flannel?
— from First Lessons in Natural Philosophy for Beginners by Joseph C. (Joseph Comly) Martindale

"If," he told himself, " this Danvers is that Danvers, I might make something out of that fatal likeness after all."
— from Amusement Only by Richard Marsh

Dod! it makes me scunner at some folks' aristocracy.
— from A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia E. Barr

19:142:001 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 19: Psalms by Anonymous