“I know you did, and I like your ‘almost certainly’!
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

penser la vie / Que firent ces deux amis —I leave you to imagine the festive time these two friends (the town mouse and the country mouse) had of it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

"I think it's the best thing you could do; and I like your good sense in pupposin' on't."
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Only try to find me out, no matter how I may be disguised, as I love you dearly, and in making me happy you will find your own happiness.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

I am not angry with you for writing such innocent matters as these: though you ought to be wary what tales you send out of a family.—Be faithful and diligent; and do as you should do, and I like you the better for this.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

All this time the prosecutor is inveighed against as a tyrant and oppressor, for having chosen to proceed by the way of information, which is deemed a grievance; but if he lays an action for damages, he must prove the damage, and I leave you to judge, whether a gentleman’s character may not be brought into contempt, and all his views in life blasted by calumny, without his being able to specify the particulars of the damage he has sustained.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Love exalts as much as glory does, and I love you more than you are great.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

However that may be, I am in despair, and I love you more than ever.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Dear Alyosha, I love you, I've loved you from my childhood, since our Moscow days, when you were very different from what you are now, and I shall love you all my life.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Here you get handsome business suits at from ten to twenty dollars, and in Leghorn you can get an overcoat for fifteen dollars that would cost you seventy in New York.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

"Trodden down although I lie, Yet my death is very sweet— For I cannot choose but die At her feet!"
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

Honoured Sir,—On my arrival at Westmoreland, (which was only four days after I left Yorktown,) I found there was a large body of the enemy advancing on that settlement.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

I told him I knew Bell, but I could not vouch for him; when night came he deserted, and is living yet.
— from The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by James Carson Elliott

If you feel that my first duty is to you, you have only to say the word; if you feel that, dearly as I love you, there is something beyond that, you—you need not speak at all."
— from The White Shield by Myrtle Reed

"Oh yes, yes mamma, I know you do, and I love you too: indeed I do dearly, dearly!"
— from Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley

"Bart, ez owner o' th' defunc' animile, I 'low yo've got fus' say.
— from A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey

He spat on the siller an' pooched it syne, An' quately winked an e'e; "The road's a bond that we canna deny, An' its linkit you an' me In the kindly yoke o' the gaun-about folk, Whauriver they chance to be!"
— from The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by David Rorie

We shall have a great deal to do, and I like your face, Phœbe, and I'm so lonely, I think I'll get you to sit here in the window near me.”
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu