What, in a way, most profoundly impressed Martin, was the correlation of knowledge—of all knowledge.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next way: For I the ballad will repeat, Which men full true shall find:
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It seems it’s not the first; well then, it’s the second; and blythe am I to ken it, for it should be a pretty penny in my pocket and the pockets of my friends.”
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Home, and a little to the office, and then to bed, where I lay with much pain in my head most of the night, and very unquiet, partly by my drinking before I went out too great a draught of sack, and partly my eyes being still very sore. 6th (Lord’s day).
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There are some men who cannot endure the smell of brown paper; it makes them ill.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

what eyes hath love put in my head, Which have no correspondence with true sight, Or if they have, where is my judgment fled, That censures falsely what they see aright?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The wages of the shepherd are not paid in money; a certain number of the sheep, between forty and fifty according to circumstances, are his own property, and their produce constitutes his hire.
— from The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

For the earliest pictures of the resort we must turn to the pages of Pepys, whose first visit to the gardens was paid in May, 1662.
— from Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley

The Goblin has never admitted just what honeyed sophistries he employed to win the hearts of the simple pair in Mrs. Kent's kitchen.
— from Kathleen by Christopher Morley

But the confidence you have placed in me, as well as the good of my country, oblige me to keep nothing hidden that I know.”
— from Akbar: An Eastern Romance by P. A. S. van (Petrus Abraham Samuel) Limburg Brouwer

Christi petentis aethera Exsolve promissam fidem, Et nostra praesens igneo Munda lavacro pectora.
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman

I literally haven't a penny in my pocket I wish you'd take it in kind instead of money."
— from The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story by Angela Brazil

It is for me a thoroughly established fact, and one of which I have given the proofs in my "Delitto Politico,"[71] that true revolutionists, that is to say, the initiators of great scientific and political revolutions, who excite and bring about a true progress in humanity, are almost always geniuses or saints, and have all a marvellously harmonious physiognomy; and to verify this it is sufficient simply to look at the plates in my "Delitto Politico."
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

Next to the Alexanders the name Harris was most prevalent in Mecklenburg county preceding the Revolution, and both still have numerous worthy descendants among us to perpetuate the fair name and fame of their distinguished ancestors.
— from Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published by C. L. Hunter

This art, often successful when employed by dunces, gives irresistible fascination to works which possess intrinsic merit.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron