But, as it is my design never to return—or not for some weeks—or not until certain concealments are effected—the gaining of time is the only point about which I need give myself any concern.’
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

It is after all a simple question—what is good for the people, and what is not good for the people.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

Solomon: "How is that possible?" Ant: "Were I not greater than thou, God would not have led thee hither to put me on thy hand."
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Louis Ginzberg

To create a permanent assembly, would it not give to parliament a dangerous preponderance?
— from The New German Constitution by René Brunet

He went to Paris, but Paris seemed blocked and complicated, and Munich presented advantages which, if not greater, were at least easier to approach.
— from Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James

But two hundred pounds a week is no good to me.”
— from Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff by Carlton

They give to the government, and to each branch of it, all the power it possesses, or can possess; and what is not given they retain.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple