Let us have no such ceremonies for Emile; let it be the real thing not the sham.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Often it is prescribed that the thief’s candle should be made of the finger of a new-born or, still better, unborn child; sometimes it is thought needful that the thief should have one such candle for every person in the house, for if he has one candle too little somebody in the house will wake and catch him.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

That a deliverer should come, who would crush the demon's head, and free His people from their sins, ex omnibus iniquitatibus ; that there should be a New Covenant, which would be eternal; that there should be another priesthood after the order of Melchisedek, and it should be eternal; that the Christ should be glorious, mighty, strong, and yet so poor that He would not be recognised, nor taken for what He is, but rejected and slain; that His people who denied Him should no longer be His people; that the idolaters should receive Him, and take refuge in Him; that He should leave Zion to reign in the centre of idolatry; that nevertheless the Jews should continue for ever; that He should be of Judah, and when there should be no longer a king.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Husband and wife, when they are happily matched, are in liberal communities more truly united than before, because such closer friendship expresses their personal inclination.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

She unchained and unbolted and unlocked and when the door was open she sprang across the step with one bound, and there she was standing on the grass, which seemed to have turned green, and with the sun pouring down on her and warm sweet wafts about her and the fluting and twittering and singing coming from every bush and tree.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

He lifted the latch, and turned into the bright bar or kitchen on the right hand, where the less lofty customers of the house were in the habit of assembling, the parlour on the left being reserved for the more select society in which Squire Cass frequently enjoyed the double pleasure of conviviality and condescension.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

The princess approved of this advice, and a few days later she called for Emilie and Armelline, and brought them to her palace, where I awaited them with the cardinal, the prince, and the Duchess of Fiano.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Bernardo, come vide li occhi miei nel caldo suo caler fissi e attenti, li suoi con tanto affetto volse a lei, che ' miei di rimirar fe' piu` ardenti.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

‘If it be so, it will prove itself; but I really do not see any special cause for extra fear.’
— from That Stick by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The similarity of practices, however, did not promote a permanent mingling of the two races in the same congregations, for either would feel some restraint upon its rhapsody imposed by the presence of the other.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Prendergast had a fawning liking for the notice of his fellows—save for his saloon cronies, few enough in the town, where it was currently reported that he had a prison record in Arkansas, ever exchanged more than a nod with him—and he had responded eagerly to the civil inquiries.
— from Satan Sanderson by Hallie Erminie Rives

Neither knew what the other had been saying, but the spectators perceived without more words that the young men were not perfectly safe companions for each other, and took precautions, with instinctive comprehension of the case.
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant