If he declares honestly that he has forgotten everything he had learned about the matter in college, he is easily dealt with in the same way as “uneducated people.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Every man, of course, has his fane, from which even the most innocent conscious humor is excluded; but in proportion as the writer’s position is high above his fellows, the range of his humor is extended.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 3, March 1847 by Various

If money could tempt me, I could have it elsewhere, as you know.
— from Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope

I dismissed at once the idea that it might have been fired from the lake; it had crashed through the glass with too much force to have come so far; and, moreover, I could hardly imagine even a rifle-ball’s finding an unimpeded right of way through so dense a strip of wood.
— from The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson

In German mythology, England is the Phaiakian land of clouds and phantoms; the succubus, leaving her lover before daybreak, excuses herself on the plea that "her mother is calling her in England."
— from Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske

Had the failure been meditated, I could have involved Eastern brokers for at least $1,000,000.
— from My Adventures with Your Money by George Graham Rice