"It is you, I think, Mr. Rogers, who are a little unreasonable in not giving me a chance to tell you how I look at it.
— from Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

As people passed by Bartram, and looked upon its neglected grounds and smokeless chimneys, they thought my plight, I dare say, about the worst a proud man could be reduced to.
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Nostochineæ are either an assemblage of cells loosely united into numerous green chaplets, or distinctly beaded filaments, generally twisted, and occasionally branched; they are imbedded in a firm gelatinous frond of different form, sometimes globular, sometimes spreading in branched masses, often of considerable size.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

When he spoiled the even trim of his ship (it did look like a boat as it sped around the lawn upon its narrow, guiding thread) and placed the weights upon one side of the car, that side rose up to receive them.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

A God who does not trouble himself about us, who does not hear our prayers, who does not see us and love us, is no God; thus humanity is made an essential predicate of God;—but at the same time it is said: A God who does not exist in and by himself, out of men, above men, as another being, is a phantom; and thus it is made an essential predicate of God that he is non-human and extra-human.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

Quantity is of little use if not good.
— from Woman under socialism by August Bebel

{117} 15 'She but received us out of pride, to show Her state, well deeming that her happiness Was little worth while there was none to know; So is our lot uninjured if none guess.
— from The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas by Robert Bridges