“Everything depends upon our speed.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

How much our happiness depends upon our spirits, and these again upon our state of health, may be seen by comparing the influence which the same external circumstances or events have upon us when we are well and strong with the effects which they have when we are depressed and troubled with ill-health.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Nie kommt das Unglück ohne sein Gefolge —Misfortune never comes without his retinue.
— 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.

Oh, how I enjoyed these excursions on the lake; the very idea of our dinner depending upon our success added double zest to our sport!
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

If one is ab origine a fool, one becomes so more than ever, seeing that, however much one may try not to forget what one has learnt, there will dawn upon one, sooner or later, the revelation that one's knowledge is all rubbish, that sensible men have ceased to engage in such futilities, and that one has lagged far behind the times.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

You will take nothing but your own judgment; that is, you will not only judge for yourselves, not only discard the court, discard our construction, discard the practise of the government, but you will drive us out, simply because you will it.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Over this ledge the water is deflected upon one side and spread like a half-open fan to the width of nearly two hundred feet.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The Vision of the Maid of Orléans Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 The Rose The Complaints of the Poor Metrical Letter Ballads The Cross Roads The Sailor who had served in the Slave Trade Jaspar Lord William A Ballad shewing how an old woman rode double and who rode before her The Surgeon's Warning The Victory Henry the Hermit English Eclogues The Old Mansion House The Grandmother's Tale The Funeral The Sailor's Mother The Witch The Ruined Cottage The Vision of the Maid of Orléans Divinity hath oftentimes descended Upon our slumbers, and the blessed troupes Have, in the calme and quiet of the soule, Conversed with us.
— from Poems, 1799 by Robert Southey

She had gone off in those mad fits ever since her baby died up on Saskatchewan.
— from The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. Laut

Was the intention to deprive us of some resources?
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

He will make due use of spontaneous impulse; but that this may be wise and disciplined, he will form the habit of curiosity about words, their stations, their savor, their aptitudes, their limitations, their outspokenness, their reticences, their affinities and antipathies.
— from The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor

In a few moments the canoes had been drawn up on shore and their contents unloaded.
— from The Go Ahead Boys in the Island Camp by Ross Kay

Give me just one tooth of an elephant, dredged up off Scarborough, and if I don't make those men delighted, then I may leave the Royal Society."
— from A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman

I hold them to have been, what the world thought them, men of deep understanding, open sincerity, and clear honor.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke