His neat-fitting garments he wilfully shed And sacked himself strangely in checks instead; Denuded his chin, but retained at each ear A whisker that looked like a blasted career.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Ira quæ tegitur nocet; / Professa perdunt 40 odia vindictæ locum —Resentment which is concealed is dangerous; hatred avowed loses its opportunity of revenge.
— 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.

I’m awful sorry, Miss Mary Jane, I’m just as sorry as I can be; but I done the best I could; I did honest.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

'I call it disgraceful,' he said, raising his voice.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

By itself the imitation castle is doubtless harmless, and well enough; but as a symbol and breeder and sustainer of maudlin Middle-Age romanticism here in the midst of the plainest and sturdiest and infinitely greatest and worthiest of all the centuries the world has seen, it is necessarily a hurtful thing and a mistake.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

It is not easy for me to express how it moved me to see what ecstasy and filial affection had worked in this poor savage at the sight of his father, and of his being delivered from death; nor indeed can I describe half the extravagances of his affection after this: for he went into the boat and out of the boat a great many times: when he went in to him he would sit down by him, open his breast, and hold his father’s head close to his bosom for many minutes together, to nourish it; then he took his arms and ankles, which were numbed and stiff with the binding, and chafed and rubbed them with his hands; and I, perceiving what the case was, gave him some rum out of my bottle to rub them with, which did them a great deal of good.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

"Come in, come in," David heard her cry delightedly a moment later, his own face brightening as he recognized the voice.
— from The Web of Time by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles

I confess I desire her as my wife.
— from The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Carlo Goldoni

I'm awful sorry, Miss Mary Jane, I'm just as sorry as I can be; but I done the best I could; I did honest.
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by Mark Twain

The suggestion is not to be entertained that, when luring an ignorant correspondent into displaying his ignorance for the sake of the pleasure of laughing at him, Shelley sincerely imagined himself a genuine searcher after truth; seeking an enlargement of his knowledge from the person he addressed.
— from The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Cordy Jeaffreson

I called in Dr. Hichman and he diagnosed my case, and pronounced it fatal, and said there was no medicine known to science that would help me, that I must go, so I took the "girl I left behind me" and started for San Francisco.
— from California, 1849-1913; Or, The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in that State by L. H. (Lell Hawley) Woolley

B REEN ) is correct in describing Hariot as the companion of Raleigh; for that he was, and very much esteemed by him: but he is wrong in making it appear that they were together in Virginia.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Tracking, as it is called, is dreadfully harassing work.
— from Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The relation between the amounts of clay and sand in soils used for the cultivation of plants is very important, because a soil rich in clay is denser, heavier, shrinks up under the action of heat, and does not readily yield to the plough in dry or wet weather, whilst a soil rich in sand is friable, crumbling, easily parts with its moisture and dries rapidly, but is comparatively easily worked.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev