Fashion alters every year, and the stuff, to which the fashion of the day gives a value equal, say to thirty, is the next year reduced to fifteen or twenty, and then it is sent to foreign countries where it is bought up as a novelty.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It is often much wiser to get a very early start, to travel until the middle of the afternoon, and then to go into camp.
— from Camp and Trail by Stewart Edward White

"By the Frankfort paper sent you last week, and the extract I now send you, you can give a very effective shot to the 'Tribune.'
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

And, although she met very few society men, just now, being called upon to amuse feminine luncheons or stay overnight with Emily when nobody else was at home, still her social progress seemed miraculously swift to Thorny, to Billy and Georgie and Virginia, even sometimes to herself.
— from Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris