Before that time there was no written Law of God, who as yet having not chosen any people to bee his peculiar Kingdome, had given no Law to men, but the Law of Nature, that is to say, the Precepts of Naturall Reason, written in every mans own heart.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

And now the gossips were all full of pity for the widower's loss and loneliness—a poor bereaved creature living in a lonely old Grange, with a young sister, the twin daughters, just four years old, and an ancient maiden lady who looked after the sister, the children, the house, and the servants, and in her own person represented the genius of thrift, propriety, prudence, wisdom, and all the domestic virtues.
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

"For the love of God, who are you?"
— from A Royal Prisoner by Pierre Souvestre

"No, ma'am, for there is a load of good wood at your door, which is now being sawed for your benefit."
— from May Brooke by Anna Hanson Dorsey

Be ambitious to be great, not in the estimation of the worldly minded, but in the eyes of God, and to be great in this sense, " Love the Lord our God with all your might, mind and strength, and your neighbor as yourself ."
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

When Froebel was a grown man, thirty years old, a great war broke out in Germany, and he went away to fight for his country; like our George Washington again, you see.
— from The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Statements from the lips of General Wood and young Roosevelt to the effect that citizens should not argue with Bolshevists but meet them "head on" were very conspicuously displayed on all occasions.
— from The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin

You are doing a lot of government work, are you not?" "Yes; war orders.
— from Tom Swift and His Air Scout; Or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky by Victor Appleton

The love of great women absorbs you, dominates you.
— from The Divine Fire by May Sinclair

But half a grain of grief, and then a life of gladness Why are you so averse to this, my girl?
— from Vidyāpati: Bangīya padābali; songs of the love of Rādhā and Krishna by active 15th century Vidyāpati Thākura