But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire; and as Silas walked homeward across the fields in the twilight, he drew out the money and thought it was brighter in the gathering gloom.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

What is it to be superintendent, chancellor, first president, but to be in a condition wherein from early morning a large number of people come from all quarters to see them, so as not to leave them an hour in the day in which they can think of themselves?
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Government, by establishing an administration under their own immediate inspection, of the same kind with that which the farmer establishes, might at least save this profit, which is almost always exorbitant.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

There is a Light higher than all, even the Word that was in the beginning ;—the Light, of which light itself is but the shechinah and cloudy tabernacle;—the Word that is light for every man, and life for as many as give heed to it.
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Many a noble fish escaped; many a line and hook snapped in the warfare.
— from Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors by William Henry Giles Kingston

I pity the traveller from my heart, who in a barren or uniform road, has no other occupation but to count the mile-stones, and find every mile as long as the three preceding.
— from Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney

“Now,” said I to the purser, “if you wish to do me a real kindness, change me some of my Spanish for English money, and let the first bumboat that comes alongside be ready to go ashore in ballast, for I shall certainly clear it.”
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard

"Was the calmness that I now felt torpidity—the torpidity that precedes dissolution to the strong swimmer who, sinking from exhaustion, must at last add a bubble to the wave as he suffocates beneath the element which now denied his mastery?
— from The Man in the Reservoir by Charles Fenno Hoffman

Kellogg’s Premier is a strong growing bisexual and although classed as extra-early because of its unusually early ripening, it perhaps has the longest fruiting season of all standard varieties; an ideal pollenizer for early, medium and late pistillates.
— from Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries, and How to Grow Them the Kellogg Way by R. M. Kellogg Co.