"If," they said, "you do not desire wealth, because of your simple life, and do not care for the glory of royalty, because you derive more glory from your own virtue, yet think that to be king is to serve God, who gives you this office and will not allow your righteousness to lie idle, useful only to yourself.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

“Even when you go out riding by yourself, and meet Lady Margot in the lanes?” questioned Ruth, stung by a sudden rising of jealousy, which she was unable to control.
— from The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Then, my boy, always remember to look before you leap, and not to let go one rope before you have a firm gripe of another.
— from Salt Water: The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by William Henry Giles Kingston

Sometimes you don’t know what is going on right beside you; sometimes you hear what two fellows are saying to each other across the street.
— from Making the Nine by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

In the evening such intoxicating odors came from the prairie, as from a thousand censers; in the day, when the wind blew and shook the [56] flowery expanse, the eye was just pained with the glitter of red, blue, yellow, and colors of all kinds.
— from Lillian Morris, and Other Stories by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The dews are heavy on my brow; My breath comes hard and low; Yet, mother dear, grant one request, Before your boy must go.
— from Complete Poetical Works by Bret Harte

I assure you, sir, at one time, and that not much farther off than that 'ere glass o' rum—" "Brandy, you loafing rascal!
— from Guild Court: A London Story by George MacDonald

elf, with a glow of rapid blood, "you have not lost them yet!
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. by Various