The rest of us need just as much as they do.
— from Si Klegg, Book 5 The Deacon's Adventures at Chattanooga in Caring for the Boys by John McElroy

The theory had been promulgated in the sixteenth century—in accordance with the idealistic methods of the age—that it behoved the painter to improve upon nature just as much as upon the human body.
— from The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century by Richard Muther

Let us not judge a man of whom we know so little, but take to ourselves the lesson of humility and self-distrust!
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren