Alte und neue Richtungen in der Geschichtswissenschaft .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"Thou dost not understand?" "No, really, I don't understand, sir."
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The homilies of the preacher at Ashmoor-street Chapel may neither be luminous nor eloquent, neither pythonic in utterance nor refined in diction, but they are at least worth as much as he gets for them.
— from Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

He, however, had hardly entered upon his new duties when, encouraged to communicate directly with the President and certain members of the Cabinet, he in a few days forgot that he had any intermediate commander, and has now long prided himself in treating me with uniform neglect, running into disobedience of orders of the smaller matters—neglects, though in themselves grave military offenses."
— from General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright

The universe was ever new and fresh in his eyes, not spent, or fallen, or degraded, but eternally tending upward:— "No ray is dimmed, no atom worn, My oldest force is good as new, And the fresh rose on yonder thorn Gives back the bending heavens in dew."
— from Four American Leaders by Charles William Eliot