] At this time, in our country, there is little else to tempt into public life an honest man, who wishes, by something that he has done, to leave the world better than he found it.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Of two volcanoes of equal size and both 20,000 feet above sea level, that one will show the greater degree of canting that is longer exposed to the sun.
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman

It is excommunicated by the will of Heaven and the nature of things, from the only Communion that is large enough for a man to belong to or for a God to bless.
— from The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Gerald Stanley Lee

Every extreme—every opinion carried to its logical end will prove to be an absurdity.
— from Colouration in Animals and Plants by Alfred Tylor

There is less elevation, I am sensible, than in Abraham, as of course there is less exercise of spirit than in Jacob; but through all circumstances, trials, honours, changes, he is still the man of God who walked in His fear and before Him.
— from The Patriarchs Being Meditations upon Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job; The Canticles, Heaven and Earth. by J. G. (John Gifford) Bellett

Of course this is likely enough to have been the kernel of truth in the legend, but no man has a right to tell the tale in this shape as if it were undoubted fact.—
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round