Later on, when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He came near encountering every discouragement and in mastering every difficulty that may befall any American from the worst to the best, and from the lowliest to the most responsible position.
— from The Wonderful Story of Lincoln And the Meaning of His Life for the Youth and Patriotism of America by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens

Those who can do so, however, will be able to borrow much of value from "Gall's Lesson System," with its thorough analysis, numerous exercises, exhaustive doctrines and lessons of instruction, or from "Stow's Training System," with its sympathy of numbers, its picturing out into life and training which will aid others, and "Mimpriss's Gospel Harmony" will help many.
— from The Sabbath-School Index Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction. by R. G. (Richard Gay) Pardee

10: “Necesse est quatuor esse causas: quia cum causa sit, ad quam sequitur esse alterius, esse ejus quod habet causam potest considerari dupliciter: uno modo absolute, et sic causa essendi est forma per quam aliquid est ens in actu; alio modo secundum quod de potentia ente fit actu ens: et quia omne quod est in potentia, reducitur ad actum per id quod est actu ens, ex hoc necesse est esse duas alias causas, scilicet materiam, et agentem quod reducit materiam de potentia in actum.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

They have been in the habit of eating many kinds of brutes, not even excepting dogs and cats; and when pressed by hunger, have sought after the most putrid carrion.
— from The Gipsies' Advocate Or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of the English Gipsies by James Crabb

Government, while it grows older, seems to acquire the moroseness of age; and as if our property were become dearer in proportion as it increased—as if the more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears—all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.
— from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith

The habits of their narrow, everyday existence damped all her unsophisticated longing to admire; and she saw everything that was ridiculous even before she discovered anything else that was beautiful.
— from The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus

"The first set of the first series of experiments consists of seven observations, of twenty-four hours' duration each, in the months of July and August, with three barely sufficient meals per diem , in quantities as nearly equal each day as could be managed, and only spring-water to drink.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various