Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
— 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.

Nevertheless it turned out to be a fact.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

As our painters are bent on military subjects just now, I throw out this as a good subject for the pencil, to illustrate the principle of an honest English war.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Why not inflict them on themselves?’
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

For, as Jeffreye of Monmoth, the Welche historian, reporteth, Brute descended from the demy god Eneas, the sonne of Venus, daughter of Jupiter, aboute the yeare of the world 2855, the yeare before Christe’s nativitie, 1108, builded a citie neare unto a river now called Thames, and named it Troynovant, or Trenovant.”— 1st edition , 1598.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Footnote Numbering In the original text, footnote numbers began from 1 in each Book, and started over when the count passed 99.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

59 From these stately palaces issued a swarm of dirty and ragged plebeians, without shoes and without a mantle; who loitered away whole days in the street of Forum, to hear news and to hold disputes; who dissipated in extravagant gaming, the miserable pittance of their wives and children; and spent the hours of the night in the obscure taverns, and brothels, in the indulgence of gross and vulgar sensuality.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The prefix na- is that of the definite tense.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

They sailed from the north in summer; and nothing is told of their voyage until one day, about the time the days begin to shorten, they came to Karmtsund, and landed at Augvaldsnes.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

For he reporteth that Brute, lineally descended from the demi-god Æneas, the son of Venus, daughter of Jupiter, about the year of the world 2855, and 1108 before the nativity of Christ, built this city near unto the river now called Thames, and named it Troynovant, or Trenovant.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Observe the bones in the midst of all that general sympathetic derangement of the systems in which life is very active; they undergo no alteration; their life, more slow than that of the other systems, is not connected with these phenomena which have an acute character; neither is that of the cartilages, the fibro-cartilages, the hair, the aponeuroses, &c. All these systems, remarkable by the same character of vitality, do not respond to the acute affections of the other systems; they are not sympathetically affected, during these affections, at least in an evident manner.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

The next is that of the Trinobantes —beginning with [52] the common Keltic prefix ( tre -) meaning place .
— from The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

he asked; "not in the Old Testament, for the son of Elkanah the priest and Hannah ministered before the Lord in the temple, as perhaps our little Dietrich," he added in a low tone, "ministers before Him in his temple now.
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

The not very usual form "Laurana," which is the name of a character in his latest novel, is that of the heroine of Parismus .
— from The English Novel by George Saintsbury

Its note is that of the angelus, or of an old violin.
— from Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky

The sound nationalism is the only type of really helpful internationalism, precisely as in private relations, it is the man who is most devoted to his own wife and children who is apt in the long run to be the most satisfactory neighbor.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

I now enclose you a copy of my letter of March the 12th, to Mr. Carmichael, which you say was not in that of the same date to you.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

To show that he did not intend to offer them what he would not himself taste, an attendant poured him out a cup of the liquor, which he drank off.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

He rounded the building in which the President of the Council resided, an able and active, but unconscientious man, who, neither in his own affairs, nor in those of the Company, was supposed to embarrass himself much about the means which he used to attain his object.
— from The Surgeon's Daughter by Walter Scott