For though the water which goes is not different from that which returns, still the soul which goes and returns not is defiled by two demons, whom it has taken occasion by this false pretext to invite.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I hope she won’t get any romantic nonsense into her head at Redmond.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL LITERATURES LATIN HYMNS Medieval literature, though inferior in quality to that of Greece and Rome, nevertheless includes many notable productions.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

No one thinks of a good and respectable neighbour in connection with the buying of a loaf of bread at midnight with a twenty-dollar bill, without some positive reason."
— from Agatha Webb by Anna Katharine Green

"She's gettin' along right nice, I think," replied the widow, looking proudly at her one chick.
— from Idle Hour Stories by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

The wise man plays for those virtues and advantages which have been already mentioned, and the foolish man plays it for mere sport and gambling, and regards not its advantages and virtues.
— from Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. (Henry Edward) Bird

Neither the Buddha, nor Christ, nor Mohammed cared for much beyond this, and such of their sayings as have reference to the whence, the whither and the why of the universe are obscure precisely because these questions do not fall within the field of religious genius and receive no illumination from its light.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

I never see a young aspirant injudiciously compared to a great and resplendent name in literature, but I feel like saying, My poor fellow, your days are few and full of trouble; you begin life handicapped, and you cannot possibly run a creditable race.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

Danzig is one of the oldest cities in Germany, and resembles Nuremburg in the quaint old structures which it contains, and the walk through the Langgasse , the principal street, and the Long Market, was full of interest to the students.
— from Northern Lands; Or, Young America in Russia and Prussia by Oliver Optic

One of them spoke thus: “Pack up some clothes and go away right now, if you don’t want to be caught by Patupat’s soldiers and shot tomorrow.”
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield