By this device it succeeds in obtaining the kind of mental superiority which its purposes require; for though culture without freedom never made a large and liberal mind, it can make a clever nisi prius advocate of a cause.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

" "Not so," replied I, "the matter is now so clear to me, the nature of real space so palpable, that methinks I could make a child understand it.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Out of the tail of his eye he sees me approaching, but he pays no heed until I stand before him and say: "'Mister, I can milk a cow, chop wood, mow weeds or hoe If you will give me supper and lodgings on the haymow I will work an hour at anything you wish.'
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

It is all very well to smile at the simplicity of the fool, and admire the cunning of the knave, but let us remember that the poor fool has in each generation to discover for himself that this is a world in which skimmed milk is constantly masquerading as cream, and that faith in the honesty of human nature in business affairs is in the poor man the first step on the road to ruin.
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

Forty-four churches of various evangelical denominations [189] entered upon the work within a few months after its introduction, and quite uniformly the Sabbath-schools doubled their scholars within the first month or two, and in some marked instances church members and congregations were more than doubled in numbers within six months.
— from The Sabbath-School Index Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction. by R. G. (Richard Gay) Pardee

Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: "He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

One may imagine countless meteors and comets streaming through the solar system, unobserved by those who dwelt under such conditions as have just been suggested, or some huge dark body from the outer depths sweeping straight at that little visible universe, and all unsuspected by the inhabitants.
— from Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A man in Christ means a Christian man, a man in his character as a Christian.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians by James Denney

In the late Middle Ages the Boy Bishop was found not merely in cathedral, monastic, and collegiate churches but in many parish churches throughout England and Scotland.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

Cocoa Macaroon Ice Cream Make a cream the same as for Cocoa Nut Cream , except omit the nuts.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

And this uneasiness is manifest in contemporary memoirs and correspondence.
— from The House of the Combrays by G. Lenotre