(Photograph from Dr. J. G. Robinson, Pembroke, Massachusetts) Where the flock is small and the birds are to be allowed to select their own mates, all that is necessary is to watch them closely until all are mated or it is evident that there is a surplus of one sex.
— from Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture by John H. (John Henry) Robinson

Psychology does not like very well to call itself the science {2} of the mind, as the mind seems to imply some thing or machine, and there is no such thing to be observed (unless it be the brain and body generally), and, anyway, psychology is distinctly a study of actions rather than of things.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

"I fear you are making fun of me," said the old maid, "and that is not kind when all the town will probably misinterpret what happened to me yesterday."
— from The Jealousies of a Country Town by Honoré de Balzac

“I fear you are making fun of me,” said the old maid, “and that is not kind when all the town will probably misinterpret what happened to me yesterday.”
— from An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac

“‘Well,’ said the old man, ‘as there is no longer a secret, I do not know but that I may.
— from Valerie by Frederick Marryat