I will exert all the prudence and all the resolution in my power, to prevent this short delay from giving you any further uneasiness.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Sir James Mackintosh places this poor Scotch boy who began with only an idea "at the head of all inventors in all ages and all nations.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

with 30 pairs of bobbins.—These are divided: 14 pairs at point 1 = put up a pin on the left and right = with the last pairs make plaits to point 12 = add 2 pairs = make a double passing as for a plait = put up a pin in the middle of the pairs = plait with 2 pairs of bobbins to point 3 = add 2 pairs of bobbins = make a double passing as for the plait = put up a pin in the middle of the pairs
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

With much regret I perceived that Minna's health had really suffered, and therefore did all in my power to provide her with all the domestic comforts and quiet she needed.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Sen. Homines proniores sunt ad voluptatem, quam ad virtutem —Men are more prone to pleasure than to virtue.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The more precarious and the more perilous the position of a people becomes, the more absolute is the want of a fixed and consistent external policy, and the more dangerous does the elective system of the Chief Magistrate become.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The particular order of march is in constant relation with readiness for combat, is therefore tactical in its nature, for it is nothing more than the first or preliminary disposition for the battle which may possibly take place.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

My dearest Fanny, I am giving you, I hope, more pleasure than pain by this retrospect of what might have been—but what never can be now.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

He fatigues by the redundancy of his richness and the length of his sentences; and yet he is as candid and judicial as Hallam, and would have had the credit of being so, had he only taken more pains to prove his points by stating his authorities.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen by John Lord

I was not to be deterred from my purpose, and did every thing in my power to persuade her to persevere.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Henry Hunt

I've got a great deal more money than you, because I'm a boy." "Well, but, Tom, if mother would let me give you two half-crowns and a sixpence out of my purse to put into your pocket and spend, you know, and buy some more rabbits with it.
— from Tom and Maggie Tulliver by George Eliot

I think you were equally to blame, for, though Molly proposed the plan, Marjorie ought not to have consented."
— from Marjorie's Vacation by Carolyn Wells

" *** Goldsmith felt called upon for retaliation, and at the next meeting produced the poem from which the following is an extract.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

"Well, Sir Charles," I said, "with such possibilities constantly facing you, it was, as Sam Weller said to Mr. Pickwick, 'the prudentest resolution as you could come to.'"
— from A Short History of English Music by Ernest Ford

Black mustard, which is a troublesome weed in almost every state in the Union, is nevertheless imported in enormous quantities, the total imports of the seeds of the black and white mustard amounting annually to over five million pounds, the prices being from three to six cents per pound.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

I think there is nothing more painful than parting with old friends; but when we have parted with them, I am half afraid they are lost.’
— from The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Murray was one of those people who could think well, and when he wrote had no difficulty in expressing himself, yet when he came to speak aloud, and more particularly to pray aloud, found that the exact words he might have wished to use were not forthcoming.
— from The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston