To Miss Graham Of Fintry Here, where the Scottish Muse immortal lives, In sacred strains and tuneful numbers joined, Accept the gift; though humble he who gives, Rich is the tribute of the grateful mind.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Dreaming, perhaps, of banquets, as the starved usually do, and of ease and rest, as the driven slave and the yoked ox may, its lean inhabitants slept soundly, and were fed and freed.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

This is simply due to the greater optimism so characteristic of the Austrians, whose motto is: ‘Life is so short, and death so very, very long.’
— from Albert Ballin by Bernhard Huldermann