Whether we consider him as a man, with his powerful yet gracious personality, or as a religious reformer, who did much to break down old religious prejudices by showing the underlying beauty and consistency of the Roman church, or as a prose writer whose style is as near perfection as we have ever reached, Newman is one of the most interesting figures of the whole nineteenth century.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

If ever souls Lay bare to human eyes, read now in ours The loyalty which you will find in every subject!
— from Semiramis, and Other Plays by Olive Tilford Dargan

Lord Stanley indeed stated that in "five reports from Captain Forster and seventeen despatches from Wilmot, he had either received no intelligence or that their remarks were casual, slight, and few."
— from The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West

"Then one would not be making a mistake, Herr Eissler," remarked Nürnberger, "if one attributed the chief part in your life to melancholy memories?"
— from The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler