T HE G ENESIS AND E VOLUTION OF THE I NDIVIDUAL S OUL 2/6 Williams & Norgate E GYPT AND THE E GYPTIANS (With Preface by Sir George Darwin)
— from The Towns of Roman Britain by J. O. (James Oliver) Bevan

Only the pity is that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred he never discovers, never even guesses at that entombed aspiration, never sinks a shaft down on to this secret but most precious vein of ore.
— from When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

There was a fellow called Finch, secretary to the Society for the Dissemination of Moral Literature among the Esquimaux, who had been very friendly with her of late, and although I had no especial grudge against the Esquimaux as a nation, I had a strong objection to seeing Aunt Sarah's fortune go to provide them with moral literature, or Mr. Finch with his salary—the latter being, I had heard, the main object of the society.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, February 1899, No. 98. by Various

I do not even grieve at the effect, I grieve only at the cause.'
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by James Boswell