It is always safer and pleasanter to deal with received theology in the spirit of reverence, usually found in literature; thus offending no one, and meeting the approval of a worthy and influential class; but, there are other reasons why an adverse criticism of theological methods and beliefs, are not so often publicly exploited as their importance to society deserves.
— from The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion by William Simpson

As recently as 1850, for instance, large tracts of New York City, where I make my home, were farm and forest; why, in 1960 the population was only about eight million, and they thought the place had reached its height.
— from The Man Who Played to Lose by Laurence M. Janifer

And yet some have told me it is but a huge plain building, and the country about it, except for its luxuriant trees, of no notable beauty.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton

Consisting of a wooden handle some five or six feet in length, though of no great diameter, terminating in a ball of spun-yarn forming the actual mop, this implement, when new, was comparatively harmless.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson