They do it for their own pleasure, and there is no audience except the ghosts—and me, for they allow me to listen.
— from The Motor Maid by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The Berlin Act is not opposed to such a course, for it never proscribed the rights of property as there is now an ex post facto attempt to make out, an attempt tending, consciously or not, to the ruin of the whole conventional basin of the Congo.
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement

The original price of this pamphlet was nine pence the copy, but it is impossible to procure it today for any price, and there is not an extant copy of this first edition.
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend

Resting always in His presence, like a little child, or even a beggar, who knowing nothing is due to him, still asks, loves, and awaits, feeling sure that hour by hour, in proportion to our need, God will provide all that is needful, and even over and above what is absolutely necessary.
— from Gold Dust A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life by Adrien Sylvain

The German people are not going to be the richer for having a poor neighbor—on the contrary, they are [Pg 84] going to be the poorer, and there is not an economist with a reputation to lose, whatever his views of fiscal policy, who would challenge this for a moment.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell