The mercantile and reasonable part in England, will be still with us; because, peace with trade, is preferable to war without it.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

The drawing-rooms and audience-chambers have a splendid spaciousness: the state apartments of many a royal palace in Europe sink into insignificance in this respect when compared with them.
— from Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Bitter is a tax, particularly if misapplied; a rate, particularly if embezzled.
— from The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Nothing showed itself to me that could justify the boundless consternation and the daring flight of the individual still sitting up in the sand in front of me, a rather portly individual extremely well-dressed.
— from German Moonlight by Wilhelm Raabe

It had been already done with France and Holland, and it was afterwards done with Prussia, and made a regular part in every treaty they proposed to others.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson