The sensitive minds of the higher beings on planets like Hiranyaloka feel keen pain if any mistake is made in conduct or perception of truth.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

There was a man I met in Colorado, one Christmas-time.
— from They and I by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Clarke's Gladstone and Maryland Toleration, 245 , m. Clergymen most active writers in favor of colonization, 91 ; some preach sermons but stay away from public prayer, 143 ; supported by magistrates in Massachusetts if church order was disturbed, 266 ; men of unusual prudence in ranks of, 266 .
— from The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People by Edward Eggleston

The answer of that most interesting man is characteristic of his sensibility, whilst it unhappily shows him to be approaching the close of his life (for he survived Petrarch but a year), in pain and extreme debility.
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

"Except for the one man I mentioned, I concentrated on the past—the future is too completely unknown to us.
— from The Old Die Rich by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold

If, by the introduction of the turnip husbandry, or by the use of a more invigorating manure, I can obtain the same produce with less capital, and without disturbing the difference between the productive powers of the successive portions of capital, I shall lower rent; for a different and more productive portion will be that which will form the standard from which every other will be reckoned.
— from On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

“What I mean is, Maitland is clearly out of condition.
— from To Him That Hath: A Tale of the West of Today by Ralph Connor

In vertue, and you must imitate mee In coloures of your garments: my sweete mother Is— 286 Fran.
— from Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker