I confess that it is on this, its humanizing mission, that the Society's best claim to the gratitude of our generation seems to me to depend.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Hence the beautiful tints that always preceded sunrise in this lower world, and made it so much like the coming and going of our glorious sunshine.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

This the Indians seeing, admired the goodness of our God: “showing the difference between their conjuration and our invocation in the name of God for rain; theirs being mixed with such storms and tempests, as sometimes, instead of doing them good, it layeth the corn flat on the ground; but ours in so gentle and seasonable a manner, as they never observed the like.”
— from The Story of Pocahontas by Charles Dudley Warner

Nothing e’er withstood Freemen fighting for their good; Armed with all their fathers’ fame, They will win and wear a name That shall go to endless glory, Like the gods of old Greek story; Raised to heaven and heavenly worth, For the good they gave to earth.”
— from History of the Scottish Regiments in the British Army by Archibald K. Murray

Carlyle said, "No, not so; all he had got to say in that way was like a few driblets from the great ocean of German speculation on kindred subjects by Goethe and others.
— from Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb