A woman is never deceived upon such points as this; she as readily notes the fact when a man dislikes as when he admires her.
— from The Rosery Folk by George Manville Fenn

Water is not drunk unless somebody drinks it; it does not quench thirst unless a thirsty person drinks it—and so on.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

The letters of such soldiers as these are the best recruiting-sergeants that can be sent abroad among any people; just as the letters of whining, lugubrious or dissatisfied men, who have gone into war without expecting any of its dangers or discomforts—who are satisfied with no fare less luxurious than that served up at Delmonico's or the Maison Dorée, and who protest against any sleeping which is not done upon spring-mattresses strown with rose-leaves,—cannot do otherwise than discourage and unnerve the whole immediate community in which they fall.
— from Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford

But this is not the greatest part of the mischief: for the main bog, although, perhaps, not reducible to natural soil, yet, by continuing large, deep, straight canals through the middle, cleaned at proper times as low as the channel or gravel, would become a secure summer-pasture; the margins might, with great profit and ornament, be filled with quickens, birch, and other trees proper for such a soil, and the canals be convenient for water-carriage of the turf, which is now drawn upon sled-cars, with great expense, difficulty, and loss of time, by reason of the many turf-pits scattered irregularly
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Jonathan Swift

That belief which is not dependent upon sight—that belief which was in Him as the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever—that belief which would be in Him when He had gone away from the world—that, and that only, would raise them above themselves, would unite them to the Father, would make them partakers of His true and eternal life.
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

But this is not the greatest part of the mischief; for the main bog, although, perhaps, not reducible to natural soil, yet, by continuing large, deep, straight canals through the middle, cleaned at proper times as low as the channel or gravel, would become secure summer-pasture; the margins might, with great profit and ornament, be filled with quickens, birch, and other trees proper for such a soil, and the canals be convenient for water-carriage of the turf, which is now drawn upon sled-cars, with great expense, difficulty, and loss of time, by reason of the many turf-pits scattered irregularly through the bog, wherein great numbers of cattle are yearly drowned.
— from Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734) by Jonathan Swift