Running up to me, with great eagerness, he strained me in his embrace, and his heart was so full, that for some minutes he could not speak.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Therefore I shall, if I can, so limit myself, that in carrying through this work, I may, with God's help, neither say what is superfluous nor omit what is necessary.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

His debts in College, though not great, were increasing; and his scanty remittances from Lichfield, which had all along been made with great difficulty, could be supplied no longer, his father having fallen into a state of insolvency.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Because salvation and virtue as well, Sansara and Nirvana as well, are mere words, Govinda.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

That, the plan of action was that they should lie by with patience; that, they should allow the Mounds to be gradually levelled and cleared away, while retaining to themselves their present opportunity of watching the process—which would be, he conceived, to put the trouble and cost of daily digging and delving upon somebody else, while they might nightly turn such complete disturbance of the dust to the account of their own private investigations—and that, when the Mounds were gone, and they had worked those chances for their own joint benefit solely, they should then, and not before, explode on the minion and worm.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable—not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

I believe that the sole effectual means which governments can employ in order to have the doctrine of the immortality of the soul duly respected, is ever to act as if they believed in it themselves; and I think that it is only by scrupulous conformity to religious morality in great affairs that they can hope to teach the community at large to know, to love, and to observe it in the lesser concerns of life.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Albemarle’s tactics are praised by Captain Mahan.] which gives me occasion to see that they are busy after that business, and I am glad of it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I never can do anything to another man without giving him a right to do the same to me on the same conditions; just as no mass can act with its motive power on another mass without thereby occasioning the other to react equally against it.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

It was associated in their minds with greatness.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

I could just reach it, and setting my teeth and summoning all my courage, I gripped it fast and made my way gradually upward.
— from A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari And Other Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Carruthers Cornell

For it we put on our most worldly garments.
— from The Perfect Gentleman by Ralph Bergengren

Its unreality consists in the fact that there was never any real need for it; and the more we grasp the truth of the all-embracingness of the ONE Good, both as Cause and as Effect, on all planes, the more the experience of its opposite will cease to have any place in our lives.
— from The Creative Process in the Individual by T. (Thomas) Troward

There is the rough man who glories in his roughness, scorns luxury, and doesn't wash.
— from The Downfall of the Dervishes; or, The Avenging of Gordon by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett

If Manna would give him a dollar, he could buy the ticket back again.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

"Careless what fate may befall me, When Glory shall call me."
— from The Dominant Strain by Anna Chapin Ray

Mr. Fairfax was afraid the mother was going away with the child, and that his chance would be lost; but it was not so.
— from The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

They have rude boats called dug-outs,” continued Miss Wilder, glad of an absorbing subject.
— from The Cricket by Marjorie Benton Cooke

Nearly a thousand men were gathered at the post, and there was much work to be done.
— from The Island of Yellow Sands: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys by Ethel C. (Ethel Claire) Brill

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman; for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning—neither would it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments.—But, Sir Anthony, I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice.
— from The Rivals: A Comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan