My bed room has been greatly improved by nailing up three of the bedding wrappers (and which, for the purpose, I found a most invaluable treasure), against three of the windows, so as to exclude all the searching, piercing, cold winds and air, which, I hear, penetrates so bleakly when the winter fully sets in; for this aforesaid bed room of mine has no fewer than four windows; for the Canadians, not being taxed for their lights, think they can never have enough, and hence we are broiled in summer and frozen in winter, as the concomitants of our delectable liberty.
— from The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer, M.A. Rector of Thornhill, in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West by John Armstrong

The others fell upon their knees and implored mercy; and they got it, but not until the skipper, who now seemed roused to all the fury of great anger, set to kicking them lustily, and with no discrimination—for they all had their full share of it.
— from The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Max Pemberton

In such a case, no doubt, it may be said that the false idea is useful to the party who have given it, but not useful to those who actually believe in it.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore