¡Qué admirable lugar 15 para dedicarse a la contemplación de nuestra propia alma y prepararse a las buenas obras!
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Instant, you sailors to this task attend; Swift to the palace, all ye peers ascend; Let none to strangers honours due disclaim: Be there Demodocus the bard of fame, Taught by the gods to please, when high he sings The vocal lay, responsive to the strings."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Dear Jessica, you will not forsake me now; you will put away your perversity and love me simply and unreservedly?
— from The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More

If you take my advice you will think of your pint and your pipe and let all the rest go to the devil.”
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark; but your apparatus is simple, and the mark a true one; and while parents and young persons are left destitute of other just means of estimating and becoming prepared for a reasonable course in life, your discovery, that the thing is in many a man's private power, will be invaluable!
— from Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader by Benjamin Franklin

On the eve of the campaign of 1916, your attitude and accomplishment in this matter will be accepted by the country as the final test of your leadership and will be of incalculable psychological importance to the party; and, therefore, in the carrying out of this programme we cannot afford to hesitate or to blunder, because as election day approaches trivial mistakes will be magnified and exaggerated by the opposition, to the hurt and injury of our party and your prestige as leader.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

“It will take a full term for you to find your place among young people, and learn all they will teach you.”
— from Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by Jean K. (Jean Katherine) Baird

Now I am delighted on account of his great power and your pleasure, and long ago did I know this circumstance with regard to you.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

"About five hundred pounds a year; perhaps a little more."
— from Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.

School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark; but your apparatus is simple, and the mark a true one; and while parents and young persons are left destitute of other just means of estimating and becoming prepared for a reasonable course in life, your discovery that the thing is in many a man's private power, will be invaluable!
— from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin