Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Four days afterwards, as we were preparing for our departure, my mother gave me a parcel for Bettina, and M. Grimani presented me with four sequins to buy books.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“I’m going to count five,” continued Julius, “and I guess, if you let me get past four, you needn’t worry any about Mr. Brown.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The contents of that cupboard are an answer to all my enquiries; and I see a weapon there” (here he stooped and took out the harp) “on which I would more gladly prove my skill with thee, than at the sword and buckler.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Just one good spree for myself and the missus, giving pleasure to ourselves and employment to others, and satisfaction to you to think it's not been throwed away.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

A nation may import to a greater value than it exports for half a century, perhaps, together; the gold and silver which comes into it during all this time, may be all immediately sent out of it; its circulating coin may gradually decay, different sorts of paper money being substituted in its place, and even the debts, too, which it contracts in the principal nations with whom it deals, may be gradually increasing; and yet its real wealth, the exchangeable value of the annual produce of its lands and labour, may, during the same period, have been increasing in a much greater proportion.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Thence with mighty content homeward, and in my way at the Stockes did buy a couple of lobsters, and so home to dinner, where I find my wife and father had dined, and were going out to Hales’s to sit there, so Balty and I alone to dinner, and in the middle of my grace, praying for a blessing upon (these his good creatures), my mind fell upon my lobsters: upon which I cried, Odd zooks! and Balty looked upon me like a man at a losse what I meant, thinking at first that I meant only that I had said the grace after meat instead of
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Seeing that someone had written upon his house in Latin the words: "May God preserve this house from the wicked," he said, "The owner must never go in."
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

In that circumstance I have imitated the example of my glorious progenitors, and that consideration alone hath supported me against all the assaults of despair.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Not that I'm in the least frightened, but—" "It will give me great pleasure to come—faithfully searching my pockets as I grope forward.
— from Captivating Mary Carstairs by Henry Sydnor Harrison

"My God, Professor, do you mean to say that you suspect—" Professor Brierly shook his head regretfully and was about to speak when Vasiliewski impulsively interrupted.
— from Death Points a Finger by Will Levinrew

An ancestral home, no matter how small, can mean more to the inmates than the most gorgeous pile that the newly-rich millionaire can raise.
— from Between the Larch-woods and the Weir by Flora Klickmann

Solitary masturbation has for some time ceased, but a nude woman in the act of masturbation with her back to me gives me great pleasure.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

Miss Galbraith puts her handkerchief to her face, and sobs.
— from The Parlor Car by William Dean Howells

Your least movement gives me greater pleasure than a mother even can feel as she sees her child asleep or at play.
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

"I would not," he said, "in matters of such importance, affect to be wiser or to make greater pretensions than my age or experience warrants, yet seeing affairs in such perplexity, I will rather incur the risk of being charged with forwardness than neglect that which I consider my duty.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) by John Lothrop Motley

It appears that he has amassed several millions of money, great part of which is in foreign funds.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

The inauguration of the third and most glorious phase in this historic and momentous development must now depend on the consummation of the tasks willingly shouldered by this youthful, this virile and greatly beloved community, which, despite its physical remoteness from the heart and world centre of the Faith, the smallness of its size, its limited resources and the vastness of the field under the jurisdiction of its elected representatives, has made such great strides since its inception, has shown such exemplary devotion and loyalty, and has preserved and reinforced so nobly the solidity of its foundations.
— from Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand by Effendi Shoghi