In the most chivalrous days of Europe, Knights formed numerically but a small fraction of the population, but, as Emerson says—"In English Literature half the drama and all the novels, from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Walter Scott, paint this figure (gentleman)."
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Thence arises the necessity for some prolonged system of co-operation; and thence arises the family in its full educational sense.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Never forget St. Paul's sentence, "Love is the fulfilling of the law."
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

At this moment, when the coachman and guard were comparing notes for the last time before starting, on the subject of the way-bill; when porters were screwing out the last reluctant sixpences, itinerant newsmen making the last offer of a morning paper, and the horses giving the last impatient rattle to their harness; Nicholas felt somebody pulling softly at his leg.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

[373] is that, and loyalty is that, and, in English literature, half the drama, and all the novels, from Sir Philip Sidney
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast negroes, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, stood in the warmth of the sunrise watching the setting of this strange new star.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

American officers have not faced such problems since the days in which George Washington was Commander in Chief.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Mrs. Steerforth appeared to me to regret having been a little nettled; for she presently said, in a kind tone: ‘Well, my dear Rosa, we have not heard what it is that you want to be satisfied about?’ ‘That I want to be satisfied about?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

[Footnote 9: "Petrificata montium calcariorum non filii sed parentes sunt, cum omnis calx oriatur ab animalibus."— Systema Naturae ,
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Yale , in Denbigh = Llanarmon.—Said to have been built by Owen Gwynedd, but here, as we have said, an earlier Norman foundation seems probable (see p. 272 ).
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage

He was no fool, some people said regretfully.
— from A Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume II by Frank Frankfort Moore

And now for social pictorial satire considered as a fine art.
— from Social Pictorial Satire by George Du Maurier

“I have evidently,” he thought, “not yet acquired that felicitous insensibility which is needful for successful public speaking.
— from The Burning Spear: Being the Experiences of Mr. John Lavender in the Time of War by John Galsworthy

Medici bleeding literally and figuratively his fellow-citizens, going from that occupation to his Platonic Academy and disputing on the immortality of the soul, winding up with orgies of sensual depravity with his boon companion Pulci, and all the time making himself an historic name for statecraft; Pope Sixtus IV, at the very heart of the Pazzi conspiracy to murder the Medici— “And Pope Nicholas V when drunk ordering a man to be executed, and being sorry for it when sober,” said Judith.
— from The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke