Redlichkeit gedeiht in jedem Stande —Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The neighboring spectators shook with a gentle inward joy, several faces went behind fans and hand-kerchiefs, and Tom was entirely happy.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

"Give me the goblet I joyfully stake all upon your word.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“How goes it, Jacques?” said one of these three to Monsieur Defarge.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

3, which was delivered not long before Easter, there were no fresh leaves of fig trees, nor bunches of fresh grapes in Judea; so that when St. Mark says, ch. 11.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Gentlemen, I just simply speak of this to show how easy it is for people to be mistaken.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

As to the funeral, the following account is given in Judge Sewall's Diary, quoted in Bridgman's King's Chapel Epitaphs, p. 318.
— from A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c. by William Henry Whitmore

"Your grandfather is Joseph S.?" queried the elderly man.
— from When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

The door opened an inch, then another inch, and in the gloomy interior Jeff saw, not too well, a scowling face that was framed in a veritable haystack of black hair and beard.
— from Trading Jeff and His Dog by Jim Kjelgaard

[39] [355] And further: " Und es ist doch gewiss eine ästhetische Leistung, wenn es der Kochkunst gelingt ans einem thierischen Kadaver einen Gegenstand des Geschmacks in jedem Sinne zu machen.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In conversing with an old gentleman in Jamaica, some twelve years since, who had tried the manufacture of indigo, and with every prospect of success, but abandoned it, as he confessed, for the cultivation of the sugar cane, since it was then more profitable, he suggested the solution, that as the manufacture was light work, probably aged and debilitated, in place of youthful and vigorous slaves, were too frequently employed in the process—hence the mortality.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds