And in what is now Roumania, for all the passage of peoples, and in spite of conquest after conquest, the tradition and inheritance of the Roman provinces of Dacia and Mœsia Inferior still kept a Latin speech and memory alive.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Where the rose of dawn blooms earlier across the miles of mist, Between the tides of sundown and moonrise, I shall keep a lover's tryst With the gold and amethyst, With the stars for my companions in the skies.
— from A Lonely Flute by Odell Shepard

One must, it seems, keep as little as possible on the counter, for fear of tempting Providence and the impecunious!
— from Eighteen Months in the War Zone The Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front by Kate John Finze

Frederick W. Robertson, in his prime, wrote,—'I will answer for it that there are few girls of eighteen who have not read more books than I have;' and Mrs. Browning confessed,—'I should be wiser if I had not read half as much;' while old Hobbes, of Malmesbury, caustically remarked,—'If I had read as much as other men I should know as little.'
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith