The State-Pedant is wrapt up in News, and lost in Politicks.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The principle of interest rightly understood is not a lofty one, but it is clear and sure.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It happened that truth spoke for itself, as it always does, but unfortunately is not always listened to.
— from The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers by Girardin, Emile de, Mme

And when one does die there seems to be a kind of Cæsarian operation, so that in each instance although the mother dies the child lives to undergo, if necessary, a like operation, leaving another child, and sometimes two.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Outside the door in the stone wall the bey took down the lantern which so short a time before he had replaced upon its nail and lighted its still smoking wick.
— from The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley

In the compass which Peregrinus devised for use in navigation, a light magnetic needle was thrust through a slender vertical axis made of wood, which axis also carried a pointer of brass or silver at right angles to the needle.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

"Russia," writes Mr. Stephen Graham, who has done more than any other man to bring the truth home to us, "is not a land of bomb-throwers, is not a land of intolerable tyranny and unhappiness, of a languishing and decayed peasantry, of a corrupt and ugly church; the Russians are an agricultural nation, bred to the soil, illiterate as the savages, and having as yet no ambition to live in the towns; they are as strong as giants, simple as children, mystically superstitious by reason of their unexplained mystery."
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

For example, let one of the Egyptian craftsmen come forward and tell us the secret of their glass-staining, which I understand is now a lost art.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

Sophia Jex-Blake ” 484 PART I Our great interest in biography is due to the desire to see that the “child is father to the man”; in other words, to see how, from boyhood to manhood and from manhood to old age, through all change of circumstances and all widening of intellectual and practical interests, we can detect the same unique, individual nature, and link each new expression of it in speech and action with that which preceded it.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers