Add to this your vanity, and, there you have reason enough—” “And do you not live in idleness?”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What but this unwarranted dissociation of spirit and matter, of the body and soul, of your physical and intellectual parts, regarding one as the degrading yokemate of the other instead of the counterpart and co-worker, has taken all the heart out of your lives, hidden from you the moral possibilities within your worldly reach, and reduced the only existence you are so far called upon to improve into a dead and useless hibernation of your divinest faculties? What more readily excuses and defends your indifference to the hard lines of human labor, and your toleration of a system which dooms most of you to perpetual dependence, than those mossgrown traditions which, from their selected quarters among the supernatural and unseen, are not disturbed or interested by your social wrongs, and which in truth find their best patronage and most profitable employment where most prevail the miseries of life?
— from The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion by William Simpson

All skeptic reasoning ends, as did your own, No fruit but blind bewilderment of thought!
— from The Angel in the Cloud by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

This sun has been fairly warm, and by now you ought to be feeling all right, especially after doing your share of paddling for an hour or so.”
— from The Boy Scouts on the Trail; or, Scouting through the Big Game Country by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

With my respects to your father, kind regards to Edward and Mad'lle Helene, and abiding love to your sweet self and the little people of your household, I remain, ever and devotedly yours, ALLAN DUNLOP."
— from An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada by G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer) Adam