35 Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But suppose that a Christian King should from this Foundation, Jesus Is The Christ, draw some false consequences, that is to say, make some superstructions of Hay, or Stubble, and command the teaching of the same; yet seeing St. Paul says, he shal be saved; much more shall he be saved, that teacheth them by his command; and much more yet, he that teaches not, but onely beleeves his lawfull Teacher.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

On this particular morning I awoke with that sense of freedom that all clerks know so well—the sense of emancipation, of rest, of quiet and of independence.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Never in all his triumphs, as Captain Keith said truly, was the great man so great as he was in this last world-despised defeat.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

He had a reason of his own, and, combined with this, a certain keen sense of humor made her entertaining to him.
— from Two Little Pilgrims' Progress: A Story of the City Beautiful by Frances Hodgson Burnett

David Pollard, silent and more anxious than anyone could know, stood apart with Grant Andrews, while Eph Somers stood solitary at a little distance.
— from The Submarine Boys on Duty Life on a Diving Torpedo Boat by Victor G. Durham

T he inexperienced dweller in a quiet home, who has never been tempted to wander from its peaceful precincts, has but a faint idea of the emigrant's troubles, and many may fail to deeply sympathise with Michael O'Reily, the subject of our sketch; but there are those who have mingled in the perilous tide, and can knowingly speak of its dangers.
— from The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character by John S. Robb

Neither to her parents, nor to the curé when she made her confession, does she seem to have communicated these strange experiences, though they had lasted for some time before she felt impelled to act upon them, and could keep silence no longer.
— from Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

“Now we 145 are together, and can keep steady if one puts an arm round the other.”
— from Arminell: A Social Romance, Vol. 1 by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Those triple tiaras and cross keys, so perpetually recurring, do not half so much consecrate as they are themselves consecrated by the lonely bulwarks of this desolated city of the Cæsars!"
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various

So he stuck his head into the other end of the tunnel and called, "Keep still.
— from The Eskimo Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins