I would rather leave you, than expose myself to fresh grief, which might end in destroying either my reason or my love.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Laws embodied in differential equations may possibly be exact, but cannot be known to be so.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

If the circle of ekphored engrams is drawn even more widely, abstract pictures of a higher order appear: for instance, a white man or a negro.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Sometimes large pieces of ordnance are laid by elevation in degrees, etc., marked on their mounting, the angles being taken from a table prepared for that particular gun and ammunition, from experiments at different ranges.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

If ever I drink enny more Jersee whiskee, it will be after I am ded and gone.
— from Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things by Josh Billings

Her crew consisted of seven all told, including a lad, the captain's son, and they managed to light a large flare, which was seen a long way, and was visible even in Deal, eight miles distant.
— from Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor

Education will thus become an infinitely simple and infinitely harder art, than the education of the present day, with its artificialised existence, its double entry morality, one morality for the child, and one for the adult, often strict for the child and lax for the adult and vice versa .
— from The Century of the Child by Ellen Key

But chéeflie for the length of the wall, Spartianus who touching it among other things saith of Seuerus as followeth: "Britanniam (quod maximum eius imperij decus est) muro per transuersam insulam ducto, vtrinq; ad finem oceani muniuit," that is, He fortified Britaine (which is one of the chéefe acts recorded of his time) with a wall made ouerthwart the Ile, that reached on both sides euen to the verie Ocean.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

"To some extent I do enjoy Miss Austin's patronage, but I know my drawbacks and don't cherish any foolish hopes.
— from Carmen's Messenger by Harold Bindloss

Scarcely a minute, however, had elapsed, ere a voice whose tone denoted anguish and distress, and which seemed to come from the middle of the room, exclaimed, in distinct English: 'My God!
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

If Marion's life had depended on her speaking a word, she could not for some moments have uttered it; but there is a silent eloquence in deep emotion, more powerful than language; and, giddy with excessive astonishment, tears and smiles seemed to struggle for the mastery in her countenance, like the summer light and shade upon an aspen tree.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair