To bend one's will day by day to the weaving this light of the mind and warmth of the heart into the substance of life, into conduct, is the secret of character.
— from Means and Ends of Education by John Lancaster Spalding

The story of London is central in the story of England, and appeals to the interest of every English-speaking child.
— from Stories of London by E. L. (Elizabeth Louisa) Hoskyn

Al`tenburg (33), capital of Saxe-Altenburg, and 4 m. S. of Leipsic; its castle is the scene of the famous "Prinzenraub" ( q. v .), related by Carlyle in his "Miscellanies."
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

“How terribly dangerous,” a Protestant Church-historian says, “is that ‘To be for ever and ever secure of life in Christ’ in the sense in which Luther understands it!
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

According to the social life-conception it is supposed that as the significance of life is comprised in the sum total of mankind, each individual will of his own accord sacrifice his interests to those of the whole.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[255] The scale of longitude is calculated in the same
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen