May I not go even so far as to say that the gentlest and most peace-loving of religions endorses this aspiration?
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

137 I cannot tell you the story just as Nikola told it to me, with all that flow of language common in a Greek, my memory is not good enough for that; but the facts, and some of his quaint expressions, I can recount, for these I never shall forget.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

Our music is not good enough as yet, and he would encourage men and women to write better.
— from The Vitalized School by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson

"When a man is not great enough to let change and chance guide him, he gets convictions, and dies a fool."
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

A person whose memory is not good enough to retain these texts will take a knife and proceed to one who knows them.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

A man is not good enough for a good woman to wipe her shoes on.
— from The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page

I address from the Rectory ( Vicarage it ought to be) of Crabbe, the ‘ Radiator ,’ whose mind is now greatly exercised with Dr. Whewell’s Plurality of Worlds.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1 by Edward FitzGerald

The stone of a church steeple and the wood of a ship’s mast are bad conductors, but a galvanized iron wire rope is the best possible conductor, and accordingly this material is now generally employed for the purpose.
— from Weather Warnings for Watchers by Anonymous

‘Martyrdom is not good enough,’ said Clancy.
— from The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang

The Answer of the Princess, or farther Correspondence on the matter, is not given; evident only that by and by, as Voltaire himself will inform us, she did appear at Ferney;—and a certain Swedish tourist, one Bjornstahl, who met her there, enables us even to give the date.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle