God is love, they say,
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

They all grow; there is nothing but what grows, and shoots forth into its special expansion,—once give it leave to spring.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

An elderly dame, too, dwells in my neighborhood, invisible to most persons, in whose odorous herb garden I love to stroll sometimes, gathering simples and listening to her fables; for she has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what fact every one is founded, for the incidents occurred when she was young.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

‘Yes,’ replied Glaucon, ‘I like to see them laying their ears alongside of their neighbours’ faces—some saying, “That’s a new note,” others declaring that the two notes are the same.’
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

He had gone in late to see her, but evening hadn’t settled and she was presented to him in that long fresh light of waning April days which affects us often with a sadness sharper than the greyest hours of autumn.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

'Yes,' replied Glaucon, 'I like to see them laying their ears alongside of their neighbours' faces—some saying, "That's a new note," others declaring that the two notes are the same.'
— from The Republic by Plato

My godlike friend—nay, do not stare, You think the phrase is odd-like; But God is love, the saints declare, Then surely thou art god-like.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Gradually the spread of mental acquirements, and the increasing taste for literature and art, opened chances of success to talent; science became a means of government, intelligence led to social power, and the man of letters took a part in the affairs of the State.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Good lords, although my will to give is living, The suit which you demand is gone and dead: He tells us Arthur is deceas'd to-night.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

All the girls instantly left their stools and hurried away in an adjoining room, men passed through, coming from some department which opened on the right.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Questioning the little girl I learned that she really did not know where her mother was.
— from Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York by Anonymous

I greatly admire the Alps, which I see so distinctly from my Spanish windows; I delight in the taste of the southern fruit that ripens upon my terraces; I enjoy the pensive shade of the Italian ruins in my gardens; I like to shoot crocodiles, and talk with the Sphinx upon the shores of the Nile, flowing through my domain; I am glad to drink sherbet in Damascus, and fleece my flocks on the plains of Marathon; but I would resign all these for ever rather than part with that Spanish portrait of Prue for a day.
— from Prue and I by George William Curtis

She always retained her predilection for this instrument, and maintained that it was the best guide in learning to sing.
— from Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

Her grandmother is lying there; she was half choked by the flames, but she will soon come to herself—and I have room for both."
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 06 by Georg Ebers

LA JONGLEUSE At nine o’clock I was waiting by the window, and even as a bugle sounded “lights out” in the barracks and change of guard, I let the string down.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Complete by Gilbert Parker

In a few minutes the offerings and the lamp are removed; and the god is left to sleep in the dark.
— from Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans by J. Murray (John Murray) Mitchell

Every woman or girl is liable to seven years' imprisonment with hard labour who, whether with child or not, unlawfully administers to herself, or permits to be administered to her, any poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully uses on herself, or permits to be used on her, any instrument or other means whatsoever with intent to procure miscarriage.
— from Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand by D. G. (David Gervan) McMillan

Growth is likely to slow in 2000, to a still respectable 3.5%.
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency