But because we cannot discover it anywhere except in good report, propriety, and moral rectitude, we look upon these three for that reason as the first and the highest objects of endeavour, while what we term expediency we account not so much an ornament to our dignity as a necessary incident to living.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"There is truly a freedom and variety in these figures, which I have rarely seen even in Greece," rejoined Phidias; "and I have never met with those characteristics in Ethiopian or Egyptian workmanship."
— from Philothea: A Grecian Romance by Lydia Maria Child

[315] as regards good in general, it cannot be a fault if one is necessitated as regards each individual good recognized plainly as for our good.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

The most diverting illustrations of the jargon which was intended to pass for good conversational English abound in the pocket-guides and dictionaries, of which some went through several editions, and were evidently in great request [Pg 277] by the sections of society to which they appealed.
— from Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters A Contribution to the History of Educational Development in Great Britain by William Carew Hazlitt

I would that I could get Him set on high; for His love hath made me sick, and I die except I get real possession.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford