But the future life is present still; the ideal of politics is to be realized in the individual.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

As their fathers lived in paradise, so their descendants live to-day, wild and tame alike, in love and harmony; never does one bite or butt another.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

The latter class is of the greater importance in proportion to its numbers; a man who has education enough to acquire a foreign language is pretty sure to use it, while many of the former class, who can read, really do read very little.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The conquest of Madame the Comtesse de Vandenesse would have revenged him for the contempt shown him by Lady Dudley, but, fallen into the hands of usurers, fascinated with Florine, living in pitiable style in a passage between the rue Basse-du-Rempart and the rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, and being often detained on the rue Feydau, in the offices of a paper he had founded, Raoul failed in his scheme in connection with the countess, whom Vandenesse even succeeded in restoring to his own affections, by very skilful play with Florine.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Of one place Miss Anthony says in her diary, "All rich farmers, living in princely style, but no moral backbone;" at another time: "I spoke for an hour, but my heart fails me.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

His friends listened in profound silence.
— from The Shadow of the Cathedral by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

As what was wittily said, was most studied , artificial , and exquisite , hence in process of time facetum lost its primary sense, and came to signify merely, witty .
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

"My first lesson in Patience," she said to herself, and managed to give a faint, watery smile as Papa looked at her.
— from What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge

They have often, as Courthope complained of Keats, turned away from her destinies to Magic casements opening on the foam Of faëry lands in perilous seas forlorn.
— from Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 by Israel Zangwill

Five large iron pots similar to those used for boiling sugar cane, appeared to be the only cooking utensils furnished by the hospital for the cooking of nearly two thousand men; and the patients were dependent in great measure upon their own miserable utensils.
— from Fifteen Months in Dixie; Or, My Personal Experience in Rebel Prisons by William W. Day