The general never regretted his early marriage, or regarded it as a foolish youthful escapade; and he so respected and feared his wife that he was very near loving her.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Miss Morland, he is treating you exactly as he does his sister.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

But I can hardly be without Plutarch; he is so universal and so full, that upon all occasions, and what extravagant subject soever you take in hand, he will still be at your elbow, and hold out to you a liberal and not to be exhausted hand of riches and embellishments.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

You speak of him very much at your ease, Aramis; he has probably been killed.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Accordingly, when the army had supped, he summoned this young man to his tent, who was full of youthful enthusiasm, and had been trained from boyhood in the art of war, and put under his command a hundred cavalry and the same number of infantry.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

For they that were your enemies are his, And have prevail'd as much on him as you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But surely it requires a great deal of argument and many proofs to show that when the man is dead his soul yet exists, and has any force or intelligence.
— from Phaedo by Plato

'Pull that cap off your eyes, and hold up your head, sir.' Although Oliver did as he was desired, at once; and passed the back of his unoccupied hand briskly across his eyes, he left a tear in them when he looked up at his conductor.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

It is so to speak, the life of your species which I am going to write, after the qualities which you have received, which your education and habits may have depraved, but cannot have entirely destroyed.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The stock-broker, my dear," answered Chichester: "the person who will receive your signature to a certain little paper—" "Then, sir," interrupted the lady, addressing herself to James Tomlinson, "as you exercise an honourable profession, prove yourself an honourable man in this respect.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

I have yearned so often to behold you, to look into your eyes and hear you say that I was loved, and now that it has come to me, I am willing, almost, to die."
— from Dora Deane; Or, The East India Uncle by Mary Jane Holmes

The promise of the Prologue is admirably fulfilled: But art shall show him in his human form And bring him nearer to your eyes and hearts; She sees the man in all the stress of life, And for the greater portion of his guilt She blames the working of malignant stars.
— from The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas

I cost you enough already, here.”
— from Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) by Alexandre Dumas

Rightly, therefore, have you expressed a hope that there is a 'prodigious difference' between you a Hottentot.
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

"You are ruining your eyes and health with this eternal stitching;" said he.
— from Alone by Marion Harland

We know nothing of the precise state of his mind immediately before his conversion; but we do know thus much, that years elapsed after his conversion before he was employed as an Apostle in the Church of God.
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

When the respite for fourteen days came down to Portsmouth, his friends endeavoured to encourage the expectation that he would be honourably pardoned, and dwelt upon every circumstance which gave countenance and probability to this idea; to them he replied, in a calm and unembarrassed manner, "I am glad you think so, because it makes you easy and happy; but I think it has now become an affair merely political, without any relation to right or wrong, justice or injustice; and therefore I differ in opinion from you."
— from Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

But I should have thought that Miss Affleck would have told you everything about her before now.”
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

ave saved me from a life of uselessness, and your example and high noble character have given me new inspiration.
— from Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill