VI Be not elated at any excellence not your own.
— from The Enchiridion by Epictetus

I see that this world of the West, as part of all, fuses inseparably with the East, and with all, as time does—the ever new yet old, old human race—"the same subject continued," as the novels of our grandfathers had it for chapter-heads.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

For the elderly New Yorker of to-day, perhaps, nothing were more likely to start up memories of his early manhood than the mention of the Bowery and the elder Booth, At the date given, the more stylish and select theatre (prices, 50 cents pit, $1 boxes) was "The Park," a large and well-appointed house on Park Row, opposite the present Post-office.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Because of its improved unloading and distributing facilities, San Francisco claims to be able to handle a cargo of coffee more rapidly than either New York or New Orleans.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Washington and Rochambeau had met on the 21st of May, and decided that the situation demanded that the effort of the French West Indian fleet, when it came, should be directed against either New York or the Chesapeake.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

This possibility had evidently not yet occurred to Mrs. Wilkins, and it was not one to which she could very well draw her attention; not, that is, without being too fatuous to live.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

“To tell no one, and especially not you; on no account to tell you.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The lamps are dying in your homes, The fruits upon your bough; Even now your old thatch smoulders, Gurth, Now is the judgment of the earth, Now is the death-grip, now!
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Despairing of becoming successful business men in either New York or Philadelphia, he and Rozier soon returned to Mill Grove.
— from John James Audubon by John Burroughs

God is neither an object of experience, nor yet of demonstration properly so called.
— from The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism by Ernest Naville

I know well that we may end in prison; but out of the 18,000 thieves in Paris not one-tenth are in prison, so that we enjoy nine years of freedom against one of prison.
— from The Criminal by Havelock Ellis

An excellent notion: you others agree?
— from Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

There was no sound either; no yelp of cur or cry of wakeful infant; only the hooting of a solitary owl overhead, blinking at the moon through the leaves, or the rustle of a fox stealing away through the underbush, making off with a half-picked bone.
— from A Rich Man's Relatives (Vol. 3 of 3) by Robert Cleland

Moravian missions in Pennsylvania, 367 ; the converts involved in danger from both the French and the English, ib. ; 571.png 568 murder of some of them, 368 ; the mission broken up and the converts removed to Philadelphia, 369 ; sent thence to New York, 374 , 375 ; insulted by the mob, 369 ; not allowed to enter New York or to stay in New Jersey, 375 ; brought back to Philadelphia, 376 ; remain there a whole year, 385 .
— from The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman