There be Hungry Folk among us; let them speak if my words be true."
— from Children of the Frost by Jack London

For which very reason they think the superstitious are not pleased in their minds but in fear while they attend at the sacrifices and mysteries; though they themselves are in no better condition, if they do the same things our of fear, and partake not either of as great good hope as the others do, but are only fearful and uneasy lest they should come to be discovered as cheating and abusing the public, upon whose account it is that they compose the books they write about the gods and the divine nature, Involved, with nothing truly said.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

And so, without presumption, may His child, the giver of the bounty which rears this building, be permitted to rejoice as it sends forth its annual company of students, trained and adorned for a useful life that shall gladden and bless the world.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 8, August, 1881 by Various

In 1808, as appears from an undated letter to Surtees of Mainsforth (Abbotsford Manuscripts), he was contemplating a poem on “that wandering knight so fair,” Charles Edward, and on the adventures of his flight, on Lochiel, Flora Macdonald, the Kennedys, and the rest.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

Heaven does not act independently, but follows a universal law, the so-called "Tao".
— from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard

It was remarked how wise it was of this young country to show these things, for it told the world that she does not only invite to her fair and untilled lands the self-reliant and honest among the crowded populations of Europe, but it told how well the sons of the emigrant, as well as of the resident, were cared for, and educated in the Provinces of the Dominion.
— from Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of

His grace in both is equal in extent, The first affords us life, the second nourishment.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10 by John Dryden

One of her old students, Annie Kimball Tuell, of the class of 1896, herself an instructor in the Department of English Literature, writes: I think Miss Montague would wish that another of her pupils, one who worked with her for an unusually long time, should say—what can most simply and most warmly and most gratefully be said—that she was a good teacher.
— from The Story of Wellesley by Florence Converse

But to his great astonishment, two gigantic fellows were posted outside the door; who, upon his affirming that he must be allowed to enter his own room, seemed in some foreign and unintelligible language to support the negative of that proposition.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey