Indeed, in the Creed Collection at the British Museum (vol. xiii.) there is a newspaper cutting said to be from the Builder , but without a date, in which it is, no doubt erroneously, asserted that the house was there before the year 1666, and remained standing when all around was swept away, and that inside traces of the fire may be observed on the massive beams.
— from London Signs and Inscriptions by Philip Norman

XXV There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.
— from Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley

HIS REBUFFS, HIS RESOURCES, HIS RETURNS Read Matthew xi There is a never-failing freshness in every part of the word of God, but especially in those portions of it which present to us the blessed person of the Lord Jesus; which tell us what He was, what He did, what He said, how He did it, and how He said it; which present Him to our hearts in His comings and goings, and matchless ways; in His spirit, tone, and manner, yea, in His very look.
— from Elijah the Tishbite. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. V by Charles Henry Mackintosh

XI There is a Number beyond which the impure cannot pass: the Number which is the limit of creation.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac