It was necessary for me to be earning money, and I preferred that it should be among those who knew me.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

There is a great college at Rome, called the Propaganda , where every language under the sun is taught, in order to fit persons for missionary work, Our own St. Augustine's College at Canterbury is intended to prepare young men to become English missionaries; and north, south, east, and west, are the good tidings spreading, now that the days are come of which Daniel said: "Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."
— from The Chosen People: A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

And Aleck pressed his arm, to let the scoutmaster know that he understood; even though the means to be employed might as yet be a mystery to him.
— from The Boy Scouts in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

“Yes, sir, what is it?” replied Alison quietly, and at that moment the brothers’ eyes met and an angry look was directed at the elder.
— from Nurse Elisia by George Manville Fenn

Some methods of teaching must therefore be economically more advantageous, and yet on the whole the methods of teaching muscular work are essentially left to chance.
— from Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg

"A morality tinged by emotion."— Matthew Arnold.
— from The Hearts of Men by H. (Harold) Fielding

Cambridge and Boston have laid out parkways on either side of the river, and before long further improvements will make this basin even more attractive.
— from Great Cities of the United States Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial by Stephen Elliott Kramer

But whether it be possible to turn German bravery into a new direction seems to me to become ever more and more doubtful; for I realise how fully convinced every one is that such a struggle and such bravery are no longer requisite; on the contrary, that most things are regulated as satisfactorily as they possibly can be—or, at all events, that everything of moment has long ago been discovered and accomplished: in a word, that the seed of culture is already sown everywhere,
— from Thoughts out of Season, Part I David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer - Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Earl of Dunraven testifies: Those who have remained have, for the most part, been the least physically fit, the most mentally deficient, and those who correspond to the lowest industrial standard.... For half a century and more the best equipped, mentally and physically, of the population have been leaving Ireland.
— from The Old World in the New The Significance of Past and Present Immigration to the American People by Edward Alsworth Ross