What are you to do about the inner life?—Why, for lack of reality, you shall take a sham: you shall hatch up some formula of words; or better still, take the formula already hatched that comes handiest; call it your creed or confession of faith; fix your belief on that, as supreme and infallible, the sure and certain key to the mysteries within and around you;— then you may cease to think of those mysteries altogether; the word-formula will be enough; it is that, not thought, not action, that saves.
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

“It's no' frae lack o' respect, Your Grace,” he growled, “but frae lack o' strength.
— from The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series by Rafael Sabatini

“It is not immaterial,” she declared, with a fierce look of resentment: “You shall answer to him for this!”
— from The Great God Gold by William Le Queux

"I am, as you say, a believer in the teaching of the Buddha, and if you come to rob me now, I believe it is only because I myself, in some former life, once robbed you.
— from "Out of the East": Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn