“He is a person I never think of from one month's end to another,” said Mr. Knightley, with a degree of vexation, which made Emma immediately talk of something else, though she could not comprehend why he should be angry.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

However, he thought it his best way, by all means, not to leave off his endeavors to assist his people; so he cut off the rich furniture that was in his palace, both of silver and gold, insomuch that he did not spare the finest vessels he had, or those that were made with the most elaborate skill of the artificers, but sent the money to Petronius, who had been made prefect of Egypt by Cæsar; and as not a few had already fled to him under their necessities, and as he was particularly a friend to Herod, and desirous to have his subjects preserved, he gave leave to them in the first place to export corn, and assisted them every way, both in purchasing and exporting the same; so that he was the principal, if not the only person, who afforded them what help they had.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

As a rule this new emotion is pathetic; and the pathos is not terrible or lacerating, but, even if painful, is accompanied by the sense of beauty and by an outflow of admiration or affection, which come with an inexpressible sweetness after the tension of the crisis and the first counter-stroke.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The fishing ended, the provision of air renewed, I thought that the Nautilus was about to continue its submarine excursion, and was preparing to return to my room, when, without further preamble, the Captain turned to me, saying: "Professor, is not this ocean gifted with real life?
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a king in a regular manner; and what a king!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The more we reflect upon all that occurs in the United States the more shall we be persuaded that the lawyers as a body form the most powerful, if not the only, counterpoise to the democratic element.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

You dare not, you cannot deny, that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other—of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, and the other to its derision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

31.—If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Suppose," he was thinking, "suppose—even if Carmichael traces the people to Moscow—the little girl they took from Madame Pascal's school in Paris is NOT the one we are in search of.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[38] Pie is not the only thing one brings in with his winter squashes.
— from The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp

These minute criticisms may appear invidious; but it is hoped that they will be considered only as illustrations of general principles; illustrations necessary to our subject.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Pain is not the object of contrivance, which would have been the case had the Creator been a malevolent being.
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

The society you describe in this passage is not the old Christian society formed on the doctrine of the Gospel, but the materialistic society formed on modern thought.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

Barbara's beauty, whose perfect indifference no touch of sentimental passion had devitalized, had, from the first, aroused Ware's stubborn sense of conquest.
— from The Kingdom of Slender Swords by Hallie Erminie Rives

As the kind of execution to be employed by every artist depends upon the subject of which he treats—as the line of Poussin is not that of Teniers, nor the architecture of a temple that of a common house, nor music of a serious opera that of a comic one—so has each kind of writing its proper style, both in prose and verse.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 by Voltaire

The papal institution, notwithstanding the official letters, was to exist, unless the Pope chose to destroy it; and his Holiness, as we have seen, had sent the Archbishop of Sorrento, a few weeks before, to Brussels, for the purpose of concerting secret measures for strengthening the "Holy Office" in the provinces.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

[253] Part III NURSERY TALES OF MANY LANDS
— from A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legend, History, and Science. by Henry Wysham Lanier

The man who says, "Go to, now I shall make money by my pen!" is not the one who achieves a masterpiece.
— from Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb