He could remain silent for hours without being at all put out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk circumstantially and with evident satisfaction.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When I have been abroad out of France and that people, out of courtesy, have asked me if I would be served after the French manner, I laughed at the question, and always frequented tables the most filled with foreigners.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I have seen all my army, corps, and division commanders, and have signified only to the former, viz., Schofield, Thomas, and McPherson, our general plans, which I inferred from the purport of our conversation here and at Cincinnati.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The love, the pity, the science, or the prayers of others can have no real influence over my salvation.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The contents of the letter is to show that the Kings of England have for many years made use of this honour, as a special mark of favour, to persons of good extraction and virtue (and that many Emperors, Kings and Princes of other countries have borne this honour), and that whereas my Lord is of a noble family, and hath now done the King such service by sea, at this time, as he hath done; he do send him this George and Garter to wear as Knight of the Order, with a dispensation for the other ceremonies of the habit of the Order, and other things, till hereafter, when it can be done.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

After dinner to the pay of another ship till 10 at night, and so home in our barge, a clear moonshine night, and it was 12 o’clock before we got home, where I found my wife in bed, and part of our chambers hung to-day by the upholster, but not being well done I was fretted, and so in a discontent to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"The personnel of our crews had been seriously affected by the events of the campaign of 1779.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Whether it was Clifford's purpose, or only chance, had led them thither, they now found themselves passing beneath the arched entrance of a large structure of gray stone.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The people of our country have always been pioneering, going ahead of civilization, so to speak, but always taking it with them.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

[80] Pelagius himself was a Welshman given to travel—he visited Italy, Africa, and even Palestine; and it was at Rome that the evil communications of one Rufinus, a man deeply imbued with the principles of Origen, corrupted his good faith in regard to the doctrine of original sin.
— from The Churches of Paris, from Clovis to Charles X by Sophia Beale

Therefore, it were but due him, in memory of his great exploits, and of the signal service which on this particular occasion he rendered the settlement, that we draw a full-length portrait of our canine hero likewise.
— from Burl by Morrison Heady

It is hoped that this reprint in a popular form may serve the purpose of contributing something, in co-operation with the present exertions, to expose, and partially remedy, the lamentable and nationally disgraceful ignorance to which the people of our country have been so long abandoned.
— from An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster

Clammy polanisia—hairy and glutinous all over, stem upright, leaves alternate, petiolate, ternated, folioles sessile, the intermediate longest, oblong, obtuse, entire, hairy on the margin and nerves: flowers racemose erect, bracteas petiolate, ovate, obtuse, calyx hairy, petals emarginate, crenate, capsules divaricate glutinous.
— from American Journal of Science, Vol. 1. by Various

They have no more love for tax-gatherers than the people of other countries have; but the English maxim that every man's house is his castle is a distinctly Norman maxim, and this menace offered to the sanctity and privacy of the domicile has profoundly exasperated the Norman populations.
— from France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert

Ever since the Luther Centennial of 1883 the young people of our churches had begun to understand not only the denominational significance of their church but also something of its inner characteristics and life.
— from The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems by George Unangst Wenner

It is no less worthy of observation that, though some of his actions seemed to laugh severity of moral principle out of countenance, he continually repeated others which, had his conduct been regulated by them, would have ranked him among the most worthy of mankind.
— from The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

One part of our conversation, however, amused me....
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

Had he not actually lived the life not only of the hunter and cattleman, but had he not taken actual part as sheriff in the methods of government of that part of our country, he would never have been able to interpret the spirit of the West as he did.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson