The freemen and men of family will dispute the point with each other, as nearly on an equality; for these latter have a right to a higher regard as citizens than obscure persons, for honourable descent is everywhere of great esteem: nor is it an improper conclusion, that the descendants of men of worth will be men of worth themselves; for noble birth is the fountain of virtue to men of family: for the same reason also we justly say, that virtue has a right to put in her pretensions.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

So, like Cobden, Hume decided that since the attempt of the Congress leaders to instruct the Government had failed and since the Government had refused to be instructed by them, the next step was “to instruct the nations, the great English nation in its island home, and also the far greater nation of this vast Indian continent, so that every Indian that breathes upon the sacred soil of this our motherland, shall become our comrade and coadjutor, our supporter and if need be our soldier, in the great war that we, like Cobden and his noble band, will wage for justice, for our liberties and our rights .”
— from Young India An interpretation and a history of the nationalist movement from within by Lala Lajpat Rai

Getting engaged?” “No. It is—your Emperor, not Dal, who talks of being engaged.”
— from The Princess Virginia by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

There has always been such confidence in Carey's Bank, the Careys have been respected for generations; even now it is James Carey's misfortune and not his fault, though he may have been misled and imposed upon; and, after all, the depositors are tolerably sure of their money in time.
— from A Houseful of Girls by Sarah Tytler

More loudly than even in 1809 in Austria was the German cause now discussed, the great name of the German empire now invoked in Prussia, for in that name alone could all the races of Germany be united against their hereditary foe.
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel

On our monistic principles this is a grave error; nor is it improved when "psychonomism" appeals to a false theory of knowledge.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

If you couldn’t attend the Exposition yourself, you can go even now in imagination with the Boy Scouts.
— from The Boy Inventors' Flying Ship by Richard Bonner

If you couldn't attend the Exposition yourself, you can go even now in imagination with the Boy Scouts.
— from The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Naval Code by John Henry Goldfrap