Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second, a much longer duration; and the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and shine for all time.
— 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.

As soon as I had explained to him that I wanted to go to Constantinople, and that, although in uniform, I was free, he advised me earnestly to seek the favour of going to Turkey with the bailo, who intended to leave within two months, and even to try to obtain service in the Venetian army.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Mart Eden, the hoodlum, and Mart Eden, the sailor, had been real, had been he; but Martin Eden!
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Thus in wrath Idas reviled him, and the strife would have gone further had not their comrades and Aeson's son himself with indignant cry restrained the contending chiefs; and Orpheus lifted his lyre in his left hand and made essay to sing. (ll. 496-511) He sang how the earth, the heaven and the sea, once mingled together in one form, after deadly strife were separated each from other; and how the stars and the moon and the paths of the sun ever keep their fixed place in the sky; and how the mountains rose, and how the resounding rivers with their nymphs came into being and all creeping things.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Therefore, if you look around for plants, do not go to those who advertise, "layers for immediate bearing," or "plants of superior quality to all others grown;" but go to men who have honesty and modesty enough to send you a sample of their best plants, if required, and who are not averse to let you see how they grow them.
— from The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines by George Husmann

Yet the vengeance that the great psychologist saw was futile, the violence that the greatest living religious teacher and the greatest dead ones advised no man to wreak, that violence is done daily and hourly by every little-hearted prosecutor who prosecutes at so much a day, by every petty judge who buys his way into office with common politicians' tricks, and deals in men's lives and liberties as a trader deals in pins, by every neat-souled and cheap-souled member of the "unco guid" whose respectable [Pg 201] bargain-counter maxims of morality have as much effect to stem the great floods and storms that shake the human will as the waving of a lady's kid glove against the tempest.
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre

It is due to General Hardin and Mr. English to say that their interference was of the most courteous and gentlemanly character.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

The next night at the same hour a man entered the Seward home, saying that he had been sent with messages by the doctor.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Elbert Hubbard

The law is effaced, holiness and mysticism evaporate; the specifically Christian accent is wanting.
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel

She had a mighty effort to swallow hers.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

Because, so long as I know he is living somewhere on this earth, it seems possible for my feet to go to him and my eyes to see his face.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Must God, who hath only power and wisdom to sway the sceptre, become the obedient subject of every man’s humor, and manage everything to serve the design of a simple creature?
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

How a Mayor enforced the Sabbath law.
— from A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible Second Edition by Frank Nelson Palmer