And thus having got rid of the foolishness of the body we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and know of ourselves the clear light everywhere, which is no other than the light of truth.'
— from Phaedo by Plato

He, like his disciple, has received this gift from God, and he knows from long experience what its nature is.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles by Alfred Plummer

I reached the brink of another hill, and then, absolutely at my feet, so that I could have thrown a stone on its roofs, lay Ecija with its numberless steeples.
— from The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

"We'd no idea you were anywhere here," she said, "or, of course, I would have written and asked you to join us; though, I suppose, under the circumstances——" She hesitated for a moment, then went on with a little embarrassment, which in no way detracted from her charm of voice and manner: "I told father that, after what had happened, it was scarcely in good taste to borrow your yacht.
— from Nell, of Shorne Mills; or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice

‘And for me to become Lord Edam was it necessary that the woman should die, too!’
— from In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis

"It does not become the grand master of the German orders, the rich and distinguished count of the empire, to kneel before the little Elector, who is not master of an army, but so poor that he knows not how he shall live and pay his servants; who has nothing of his possessions but the name, and nothing of his position but the burden!
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Love cannot love enough, Winter is never rough All round such sweetness; One of a million more Sent to the glad heart's door In their completeness!
— from Along the Shore by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

The whitefish live equally well, if not better, in salt water.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers

If his love for her could not be called a liberal education was it not something better?
— from An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada by G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer) Adam