The dull, flat falsehood serves for policy; And in the cunning, truth itself’s a lie: Unthought-of frailties cheat us in the wise; The fool lies hid in inconsistencies.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

His “middleness” (μεσότης) is not only local: he is in every possible sense the mediator and unifier.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

But I believe he doesn’t care about painting any more portraits, and so very likely he is in want.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When I had time to consider Lucy's manner and aspect, which was not often, I saw she was one who had to guard and not be guarded; to act and not be served: and this lot has, I imagine, helped her to an experience for which, if she live long enough to realize its full benefit, she may yet bless Providence.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

He not only expelled the enemies of his family and country from the whole extent of Armenia, but in the prosecution of his revenge he carried his arms, or at least his incursions, into the heart of Assyria.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

One kind-hearted creature spies upon another, and sees to it that he loyally helps in iniquities which revolt both of them.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

“That while the writing of different persons done with the right hand varies, that performed with the left hand is invariably uniform.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

No time or distance, however, would ever lessen his interest in her.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

I love her, it is true.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

[52] This sentence has given some trouble to the commentators.—Some will have it that three distinct reasons are given for assassinating Tarquinius rather than Servius Tullius, and that these are severally marked and distinguished by et — et — tum , the second only having quia .—Stroth will have it that only two reasons are assigned, one, why the king should be killed, and the other, why Servius Tullius should not be killed, arising from the danger and uselessness of the act—the former has not a quia , because it was a fact, ( et injuriæ dolor , &c.,) while the latter has it in the first part (the danger, et quia gravior , &c., quia being understood also before the other, the uselessness, tum , Servio occiso , &c.) because it contained the reasoning of the youths.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Nor did Lazarus lose his identity, individuality or consciousness.
— from A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

It ate into his soul like hot iron into quivering flesh, searing itself upon his memory.
— from Satan Sanderson by Hallie Erminie Rives

“But,” said he, “constant intercourse with such a man must ere long have its injurious effect.
— from Sword and Gown: A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

It is all I need to make my life perfect, for the very "Spirit of Delight" that Shelley wrote of dwells in my little home; it is full of the music of birds in the garden and children in the long-arched verandah.'
— from Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons

Like heat, it is the natural agent par excellence ; it is the invisible and ever present force which, in the ultimate particles of matter, causes those motions, vibrations, and rotations that have the effect of changing the properties of bodies.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various

“Distress,” continued his lordship, “however incurred, if not by vice, will always find a refuge in this house.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth

“Under the latter heading is included, no doubt, not only those who may have taken him away, but also those who conspire to keep him in his present position?”
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

And I wouldn't go and have tea with that little hussy, if I were you.
— from Nobody's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim