My poor friend must rest in his unknown grave; and I shall not be the means of bringing disgrace upon those I love.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

im Menschen —Levity I deem unpardonable, though it lies in the heart of man.
— 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.

There is, I said; and bearing in mind our two suns or principles, imagine further their corresponding worlds—one of the visible, the other of the intelligible; you may assist your fancy by figuring the distinction under the image lxxxviii of a line divided into two unequal parts, and may again subdivide each part into two lesser segments representative of the stages of knowledge in either sphere.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

One detachment, under the intrepid leadership of Susan B. Anthony, arranged a series of meetings for New York in the winter of 1861.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The tenants of the clergy were, like those of the great barons, almost all tenants at will, entirely dependent upon their immediate lords, and, therefore, liable to be called out at pleasure, in order to fight in any quarrel in which the clergy might think proper to engage them.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

That the price of a white man's soul No longer goes, in the mart of death, Unpaid to its last dark goal.
— from Frontier Ballads by Joseph Mills Hanson

Before Mrs. Melbury had returned to the room Grace, who was sitting on the parlor window-bench, saw her husband go from the door under the increasing light of morning, with a bag in his hand.
— from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

Even where they have built a large covered shelter underground the wet comes through the roof and trickles down upon them in liquid filth.
— from Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege by Henry Woodd Nevinson

But, please, please, do understand that I love him, and always shall, and that we shall be married.”
— from A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they did unto them in like manner.
— from His Last Week The Story of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus in the Words of the Four Gospels by William Eleazar Barton

Reaching the burnt recess, a few moments sufficed to restore my self-confidence; and without further hesitation I dived under the inner little fan-shaped fall—which was there, indeed, as Camille had described it—and recovered my balance with pulses drumming thicker than I could have desired.
— from At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes

Two men were standing at the railing, looking down upon the impressionistic lights of the sunken city.
— from The Prince of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

If gentlemen mean to deny us this information, let them deny it in public.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Better there in death united, than in life a recreant.—Come!" Thus they answered,—hoping, fearing, Some in faith, and doubting some, Till a trumpet-voice proclaiming, Said, "My chosen people, come!"
— from Complete Poetical Works by Bret Harte

Many a watchful teacher has seen the light of growing intelligence suddenly dim and wane in the eye of his favorite student just when he was giving the most promise of developing unusual talents in literature, mathematics, or some one of the natural or physical sciences, and has been compelled to watch the devastating influence of this deadly upas tree that often claims the best and fairest human flowers as its victims.
— from Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg