" "The more the better," said Miss Amelia; who, like almost all women who are worth a pin, was a match-maker in her heart, and would have been delighted that Joseph should carry back a wife to India.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Note 1003 ( return ) [ Sir C. Bell, 'Anatomy of Expression,' p. 96.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

She came back, abashed at the idea that she had proved herself rather knowing, and at the dread of having perhaps given a wrong interpretation to an action which might have been, on my part, perfectly innocent, or the result of politeness.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In respect to priority, it is a specious claim; but attended with no validity.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Commerce-destroying through control of a strategic centre by a great fleet depends upon concentration of force.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The spring can be apprehended only while it is flowing.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And it were well if all such could be admonished to discriminate judgments of which the true subject-matter lies entirely beyond their reach, from those of which the elements may be compassed by a narrow and superficial survey.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Such are the blessings of civil governments, as they are at present organized, that wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind, and are produced by the same cause; but allowing women to be rational creatures they should be incited to acquire virtues which they may call their own, for how can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its OWN exertions?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Invisible, impalpable; and yet no black Azrael, with wings spread over half a continent, with sword sweeping from sea to sea, could be a truer Reality.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

{85} ” CHAPTER V CURIOUS FADS OF ROYALTY It is recorded how a certain Spaniard, who once attempted to assassinate a king, Ferdinand of Spain, on being put on the rack could give no other reason for his strange conduct but an inveterate antipathy which he had taken to the King as soon as he saw him:— “The cause which to that impelled him Was, he ne’er loved him since he first beheld him.”
— from Royalty in All Ages The Amusements, Eccentricities, Accomplishments, Superstitions and Frolics of the Kings and Queens of Europe by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

“All right,” Chub agreed with a laugh, “but the current’s pretty strong coming back, and you’ll have to row hard, Dick !”
— from Harry's Island by Ralph Henry Barbour

She cannot be attacked with masculine weapons, e.g., fists and firearms, when she makes an assault with feminine weapons, e.g., snuffling, invective and sabotage.
— from In Defense of Women by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

"What is that?" asked Mary, wondering what possible secret sorrow could be a constant bugbear to this frivolous being.
— from The Threatening Eye by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

Presently, the firing from the woods became hotter, and the Hudson Bay leader, recognizing the symptoms, crawled back and forth in the narrow trench, speaking to his men.
— from The Wilderness Trail by Francis William Sullivan

And so, perhaps, make evil grow To something clean by agony...
— from Young Adventure: A Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét

The cutting should not go quite through the clay as, if a slight connection be allowed to remain at [137] the bottom, the tile will keep each other straight.
— from The Potter's Craft: A Practical Guide for the Studio and Workshop by Charles Fergus Binns

At ten o'clock the trader came alongside in his whale-boat, manned by his Santa Cruz boys, and we went to the village.
— from Through the South Seas with Jack London by Martin Johnson

"Nothing would give me greater pleasure than that you should come back and com [Pg 224] mand your Battalion, and I greatly hope you will.
— from At Ypres with Best-Dunkley by Thomas Hope Floyd