307 Si fue para tal Sol el mundo Occaso, Tambien es de tal Sol el ciel Oriente.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

The power of intense concentration by which he was so remarkably distinguished was, assuredly, a gift from Nature (whether good or bad we say not), and not a circumstantial accident; and it is all but incredible that a man of vivid sensibilities could have succeeded by a mere effort of the will in suppressing every manifestation of their existence during a life prolonged far beyond the ordinary term, and in the midst of the most terrible convulsions that had agitated the world since the establishment of society in Western Europe.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

But, during those drab days of poverty, we sit every morning over the empty drawer and talk long and profoundly about that painful phenomenon, which is so simple and so easy to understand and which one must needs make the best of.
— from My Little Boy by Carl Ewald

“I want to applaud you, my dear lady,” he said, “every moment of the exquisite day that I pass here.
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson