Jeder Mensch muss nach seiner Weise denken: denn er findet auf seinem Wege immer ein Wahres, oder eine Art von Wahrem, die ihm durchs Leben hilft; nur darf er sich nicht gehen lassen; er muss sich controliren;
— 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.

Then, when you’ve got some trifling, self-conceited girl like Eliza Millward, careless of everything but her own immediate pleasure and advantage, or some misguided, obstinate woman, like Mrs. Graham, ignorant of her principal duties, and clever only in what concerns her least to know—then you’ll find the difference.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Mother says she believes as half a hour’s good laugh every mornin’ ’ud cure a chap as was makin’ ready for typhus fever.”
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"We are the poor broom-maker's boys," they replied, and they told him that their father would not keep them any longer in the house because a piece of gold lay every morning under their pillows.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I professed my veneration for the good lady, excused my omission, by imputing it to the violence of my love, which engrossed my whole soul, and desired to know the situation of her health.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

A. Accused, to what he is entitled Act passed in the reign of Henry VI., anno 1425 " " " it was never enforced Actual Past Master, term defined Adjournment, a term not recognized in Masonry " motion for, cannot be entertained Affiliated Masons only, can visit lodges Affiliation, what it is " mode of " requires unanimity " Master Masons only entitled to it " rejected application for, may be renewed in other lodges " may be made with more than one lodge Age, qualifications of candidates as to Appeal from Grand Master not permitted " not to be entertained in a lodge " cannot be taken from the chair " doctrine of, discussed " from the Master, must be to the Grand Lodge " every Mason has a right to one, to the Grand Lodge " pending one, the sentence is in abeyance Apprentices, rights of (see Entered Apprentice ) Arrears, non-payment of " to lodges, history of their origin " do not accrue during suspension Assembly, general-one held in 287 by St. Alban " " " in 926 at York " " governed the craft for nearly 800 years
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

He does not consider that the real punishment of evil-doing is to grow like evil men, and to shun the conversation of the good: and that he who is joined to such men must do and suffer what they by nature do and say to one another, which suffering is not justice but retribution.
— from Laws by Plato

In these circumstances, the rent of a great landed estate might, upon ordinary occasions, very well defray all the necessary expenses of government.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The snowy table with its silver dishes and graceful centre-piece of hot-house blooms, the crystal sparkling in the rosy glow cast by silken-shaded, massively carved lamps, [33] the perfect, noiseless serving, and the bright conversation which flowed freely, little hindered by the different courses of soup and fish, and game and ices—conversation about things that were happening in the world which seemed to be growing larger every minute, apt allusions by Mr Davis, lively sallies by Belle, and quotations by Russell from authors who seemed to be household friends, so highly were they held in reverence.
— from A Princess in Calico by Edith Ferguson Black

A shepherd by the name of Hunt was killed near Grassy Lake, eight miles north of my home, in 1883.
— from Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana by Robert Vaughn

[365] Didier, G. L. "Early Marriage." Catholic World , XVII, 839-44. New York, 1873.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

There were ten to fourteen young men in that crowd, each one of whom fully deserved that lump of coal; he, the one guiltless, got it—seemingly, so far as the dim light from the gas lamp enabled me to judge, full in the eye.
— from The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Sad memories gather, like evening mists, round aged lives, and the temptation of the old is unduly to exalt the past, and unduly to depreciate the present.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

On came the threatening cloud, filling the air from the earth to an incredible height, and a low muffled roar grew louder every moment; then, as the startled family sought the shelter of the dwelling, a seething mass of insects filled the air.
— from A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral: A Tale of the Santa Fe Trail by John Dunloe Carteret

The High Germans learn English more slowly, but they, too, find many points of contact, not only in the words but also in the grammatical construction of the language.
— from The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems by George Unangst Wenner