As long as we persist in sending all the sap and energy of our being into the money-making gland or faculty and letting the social faculty, the esthetic faculty, and all the finer, nobler faculties lie dormant, and even die, we certainly can not expect a well-rounded and symmetrical life, for only faculties that are used, brain cells that are exercised, grow; all others atrophy.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

A while discourse they hold; No fear lest Dinner coole; when thus began Our Authour.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Nur ne forgesu la deciditan horon!"
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

What name, fair lady? DESDEMONA.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Quando noi fummo la` dov'el vaneggia di sotto per dar passo a li sferzati, lo duca disse: <— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Name me sometimes homunculo tuo , not forgetting little dic mendacium .
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

The great marshes were now far less dangerous than in the winter, and they safely crossed them.
— from The Little Duke: Richard the Fearless by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The foundation has been now firmly laid down, and the work is bound to develop and expand.
— from Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand by Effendi Shoghi

But when I count the cost in terms of sacrifices which the purchase price makes necessary, from literature down to food and fuel, and must draw this whole range of fact also into the adjustment if I can, the economic phase is reached.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

Not for long did the young inventor endeavor to break his way out of the water-ballast tank by striking the heavy sides of it.
— from Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat; Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure by Victor Appleton

The tavern was also noted for large dinners of the City Companies and other public bodies.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

Mais sur tout ne fail | lez de nous envoyer incontinent | les noms & surnoms, qualitez & | demeurances de tous les dessus | dicts Gentils-hommes de costé & | d’aultre retirez en leursdictes mai | sons.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson