There liveth not the soul select That sinneth not in this respect. Of "Nought too much," the fact is, All preach the truth,--none practise.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

From the foregoing figures it will be seen that, whilst in 1852 Canada could only boast of thirty miles of railway, she has now, including the railways of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, 2,495 miles.
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir

Nothing in the realm of nature is more wonderful than the manner in which some of the most minute animal forms resist cold.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

It may be truly said that the Father left the discovery of Woman to his Son, for nowhere in the Rubaiyat of Naishapur's poet is full justice done to the charms of the fair.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin

A child is born, not into the religion of nature, but into blank ignorance; and, left entirely to itself, it would probably never find out as much religious truth as the most ignorant of parents can teach it.
— from Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 by Robert Flint

A remarkable example of such a totem group is the snake society of the Hopi Indians, who dwell, as do the Zuni and Navajos, in the regions of New Mexico.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

The work of the lunarian, though seldom practised in these days of chronometers, is beautifully edifying, and there is nothing in the realm of navigation that lifts one's heart up more in adoration.
— from Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

We will preserve and defend the ancient tolls and mints which have been granted to their churches, neither infringing these rights ourselves nor permitting anyone else to do so.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

What I have obtained was the fruit of no bargain, the production of no intrigue, the result of no compromise, the effect of no solicitation.
— from The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Department of Education

The natives in the region of New Amsterdam were increasingly irritated by the encroachments of the whites.
— from Dutch and English on the Hudson: A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin