His daughters, he felt, while they retained the name of Bertram, must be giving it new grace, and in quitting it, he trusted, would extend its respectable alliances; and the character of Edmund, his strong good sense and uprightness of mind, bid most fairly for utility, honour, and happiness to himself and all his connexions.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Then it is not I,’ and went to another door; but when the people heard the jingling of the bells they would not open it, and she could get in nowhere.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

‘If that be the case (said I), ‘tis a wonder you can maintain it at so small an expence; but every private gentleman is not expected to keep a caravanserai for the accommodation of travellers: indeed, if every individual lived in the same stile, you would not have such a number of guests at your table, of consequence your hospitality would not shine so bright for the glory of the West Riding.’
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“I came then to gain information, not to give it,” said Morley.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

A may feel too weak to attack B, from which it does not follow that B is strong enough for an attack on A. The addition of strength, which the defensive gives is not merely lost by assuming the offensive, but also passes to the enemy just as, figuratively expressed, the difference of a + b and a - b is equal to 2b.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

“We pretend we’re improving ourselves, you see,” said Helen a little sharply, for the Wilcox glamour is not of the kind that returns, and she had bitter memories of the days when a speech such as he had just made would have impressed her favourably.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

All generosity is not merely French and sentimental; nor is it to be concealed, that living blood and a passion [178] of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

And doubtless to all those who live a self-indulgent life, however they veil their self-indulgence from themselves by a notion of their superior religious knowledge, and by their faculty of speaking fluently in Scripture language, to all such the word of life says, "Be not deceived; God is not mooted," He tries the heart, and disdains the mere worship of the lips.
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

In New York the attacks of these modern brigands have become so frequent and so serious that many of the larger corporations have had to take refuge in adjacent States, [4] where they can enjoy greater, if not complete immunity.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

© Screen Gems, Inc. No. 1. Shakedown.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

God is not simply a great taskmaster.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Love identifies man with God and God with man, consequently it identifies man with man; faith separates God from man, consequently it separates man from man, for God is nothing else than the idea of the species invested with a mystical form,—the separation of God from man is therefore the separation of man from man, the unloosening of the social bond.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

The family group is naturally closer among Latin peoples than [35] among Anglo-Saxon races, and this has tended to do away with some of the vices of family life which are found among Anglo-Saxon peoples, while the same circumstances have tended to increase other unsatisfactory conditions of family life peculiar to Latin races.
— from Social Problems in Porto Rico by Fred K. Fleagle

But that which is good is not new, and that which is new is not good.
— from Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston

The grape is now in blossom.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

"The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress," he insists, "was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.
— from Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2) by William Henry Herndon