Upon his monument these words should be written: "Here sleeps the only man in the history of the world, who, having been clothed with almost absolute power, never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.
— from The Ghosts, and Other Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

It seemed the one moment incredible that he had not guessed that this child's-play was something far different to her, at the next impossible that it should have seemed to the boy to be anything else.
— from The Capsina: An Historical Novel by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Then only the soul, purified and lightened of all its imperfections, can quit the earth, and after the death of the flesh soar into space, and pass into the new organism which succeeds that of man in the hierarchy of nature.
— from The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science (New Edition) by Louis Figuier

But I have seen to one matter; if trouble has come upon me, there is no reason why it should swamp all whom I employ.
— from Under the Star-Spangled Banner: A Tale of the Spanish-American War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

It now appears from the returns, regardless of what the Eastern papers may say, that our majority in the House will be approximately from thirty-five to forty; that our majority in the Senate will be sixteen.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

“Mrs. Lyndsay,” he cried, in a tragic horror—(it would have been more in good taste to have said nothing about it)—“Are you forced to devote your valuable time to mending old socks and shirts?” “They were meant for my private hours,” said Flora, laughing, as she collected the fallen articles, and stowed them once more into their hiding-place.
— from Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I. by Susanna Moodie

Meanwhile, the papers will speak tearfully of me in their head-lines—at least, I hope they will.
— from Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers