“Tardy obedience is of the house of mutiny,” I said sternly.
— from To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston

When the bell tolls out the hour of midnight, I shall take your bleeding heart out of your living body, and the heart of your brother out of his body, that with them I may decoct an essence in yonder furnace that will transmute the basest metal into gold.
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe

If e'er I open out this heart of mine It shall be for a nobler end—to teach And not to purchase puling sympathy.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

When I have added that he hated to see women eager and argumentative, and thought that their softness and docility were the inspiration, the opportunity (the highest) of man, I shall have sketched a state of mind which will doubtless strike many readers as painfully crude.
— from The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James

If little fazendas, and the remains of woods which had been set on fire, had not, every now and then, reminded us of the hand of man, I should have thought that I was wandering through some yet undiscovered part of Brazil.
— from A Woman's Journey Round the World From Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia and Asia Minor by Ida Pfeiffer

As individuals are not alike, and as the history of any particular community is modified and molded by these individual differences, so the course of the history of mankind is shaped by the peculiar characteristics of the various nations, and by their interaction upon one another.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

In fact, during the last few days, we have been informed of the Minister of the Interior's impending departure for Tours by balloon on the 7th of October, and by twelve o'clock on that day the little Place St. Pierre, right on the heights of Montmartre, is simply black with people.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

Certainly that valor which can open the hearts of men is superior to that which can only open the gates of cities.
— from Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

New York, N. D. ANCIENT SCOTTISH MELODIES, from a Manuscript in the reign of King James VI., with an Introductory Inquiry Illustrative of the History of Music in Scotland by William Downey.
— from The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay

As these variations form the great stumbling-block in the way of the doctrine I am maintaining, and as they [pg 092] constitute a very important part of the history of morals, I shall make no apology for noticing them in some detail.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky