Grant I may ever love, and rather woo Those that would mischief me than those that do!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

On the contrary he had, as it were, gained in my eyes … let psychologists explain the contradiction as best they can.
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

CHAPTER XI BARON KOLAR ON THE MIRACLE Going down the stair later in the day, I was met by Mrs Edwards hurrying up with her large face flushed, and she stopped a little to give into my ear like a cargo all that was on her mind.
— from The Last Miracle by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

He would set almost all the Greek and Roman literature in well-printed translations and with luminous introductions—and if there were no good translations he would give some good man £500 or so to make one—translations of all that is good in modern European literatures, and, last but largest portion of his list, editions of all that is worthy of our own.
— from An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Shaw's lamp of reason is one that has an extra fine glitter; it makes everything look perfectly simple; it shows us short-cuts.
— from The Crow's Nest by Clarence Day

The great idea must enter, like a consuming fire, into the very heart's core, and inflaming it with zeal, bring forth fruit an hundred fold to the Lord.
— from The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. (Sereno Dickenson) Clark

Over the haunted sea, When the great, gold moon low lies On the rim of the western skies, ’Twixt the moon, she comes, and me, {526} And gazes in my eyes; Low down, low down, ’Twixt the orbéd moon and me, Over the summer sea.
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 2 (of 5) New world idylls and poems of love by Madison Julius Cawein

In the spirit of the New Testament and not in the letter; in the spirit of life, and not in the death of the letter, in the spirit of salvation, and not of condemnation, I pray God, I may ever live and act according to your friendly desire; and feeling the same fervent desire for my highly esteemed and venerable friend, I acknowledge myself your most obliged and very humble servant, for Christ's sake.
— from A Series of Letters, in Defence of Divine Revelation In Reply to Rev. Abner Kneeland's Serious Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Same. To Which is Added, a Religious Correspondence, Between the Rev. Hosea Ballou, and the Rev. Dr. Joseph Buckminster and Rev. Joseph Walton, Pastors of Congregational Churches in Portsmouth, N. H. by Hosea Ballou

God grant I may ere long have that blessed privilege.
— from Rod of the Lone Patrol by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody