'And there really is no hurry, you know,' said Mrs Boffin in a lower voice.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Help which is long on the road is no help.
— 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.

'The boy must take his chance with the rest,' interrupted Nancy, hastily; 'and I say again, I hope he is dead, and out of harm's way, and out of yours,—that is, if Bill comes to no harm.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

If the room is not heated by a furnace, be careful that the fire is made every morning before she rises, and keep a good supply of fuel in the room.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The reason is not hard to find: he had a real heart of flesh and blood beating in his bosom; you could almost hear it throb.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Duul ra dinhi ang karsáda, The road is near here.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The reason is not hard to find.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

If we follow the indications given by our oldest literary authority on the subject, the author of the Homeric hymn to Demeter, the riddle is not hard to read; the figures of the two goddesses, the mother and the daughter, resolve themselves into personifications of the corn.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The reason of the thing, the usage of all nations, the usage of our own, by paying all expenses of preceding ministers, which gave them the outfit, as far as their circumstances appeared to them to render it necessary, have made me take for granted all along, that it would not be refused to me; nor should I have mentioned it now, but that the administration is passing into other hands, and more complicated forms.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

The residue is now heated with a mixture of one part of hydrochloric acid and eight parts of water, the liquid filtered, the matter remaining undissolved washed with dilute hydrochloric acid, and the washings united with the filtrate.
— from Legal Chemistry A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., as Applied to Chemical Jurisprudence by Alfred Naquet

In this respect it never had a rival.
— from The Seventh Regiment: A Record by George L. Wood

"No use trying to read Izaak now," he murmured.
— from The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Chester K. Steele

As to the raft, I never have been able to make up my mind as to just how she would have fared.
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

If, before he drinks, Broichan releases his slave, he is to recover; if not, he dies.
— from The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

The distance by water, owing to this bend in the river, is not half as great as that by land, and the marsh will double the distance to them.”
— from Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper