My old faith, long forgotten, comes back to me, and explains all that we do, and all we suffer.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Evil wishes, like fowls, come home to roost.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

They differ only as to the point at which each refuses to let further considerations upset the absoluteness of the data he assumes.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

In countries, besides, less extensive, and less favourably circumstanced for inferior commerce than China, they generally require the support of foreign trade.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

He once found a little fox cub half drowned in its hole and he brought it home in th’ bosom of his shirt to keep it warm.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Now, as I say, I had four left, and while I stood in the dark, a hand touched mine, lank fingers came feeling over my face, and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But because Ridicule is not so delicate as Compassion, and because 7 the Objects that make us laugh are infinitely more numerous than those that make us weep, there is a much greater Latitude for comick than tragick Artifices, and by Consequence a much greater Indulgence to be allowed them.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

a slave, Would run on errands, and make legs for crumbs?
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

Cherchez la femme, cherchez l’amour; cherchez l’ennui; and hundreds of times you find the solution.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The old timber roofs were covered, and low flat ceilings substituted.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

His first purpose was to settle at Zanesville, Ohio, but he finally chose Lancaster, Fairfield County, where he at once engaged in the practice of his profession.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Many an individual, as we have the most abundant reason for believing, loses his health, if not his life, from causes which appear to be equally slight.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

I sent my old friendly overcoat that has comforted me for nearly twenty months, and a pair of rebel spurs bought at Vicksburg from a prisoner, and worn all through last fall campaign, now worn out.
— from An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones

Don and some of the other boys were off on a long fishing cruise.
— from Witches Cove A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

4. Bascanion laterale fuliginosum ( Cope ).
— from Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 3, Volume 4 (Zoology) by Various

The latter fact caused Ruth more alarm than anything else.
— from Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Alice B. Emerson

To prevent all Visitors, who have not proper Leave, from coming into the Hospitals; as such People oftentimes crowd the Wards, disturb the Sick, and are apt to catch infectious Distempers, and to spread them among the Troops.
— from An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro

Take longer for Cumulative, perhaps, but absolutely fool-proof once we—" For a long instant Mandleco stood musing.
— from We're Friends, Now by Henry Hasse

Miss Waller had no love for children; and Doris was too well trained to defy her great-aunt.
— from The Quiver, 2/1900 by Various

Many of the precepts in the late fifteenth century "Babies' Book," while they demonstrate the necessity for admonition, speak also to an advance in politeness and delicacy at table.
— from Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by William Carew Hazlitt