Spend only £60,000, and save as much every year; that will make a reserve of £600,000 in ten years for your grandchildren.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

“‘I know,’ he said, ‘after my experiment you will say, thank you, and will call me your saviour; but you see I must think of your fiancée too.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I thank you with sacred emotion, my dear one, for your inclusion of me in the sublime and magnificent exordium you pronounced yesterday on the noble wife of Louis Blanc.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

“This is acting on first impulses; you must take days to consider such a matter, ere your word can be regarded as valid.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Mr. Crackit, apparently somewhat ashamed at being found relaxing himself with a gentleman so much his inferior in station and mental endowments, yawned, and inquiring after Sikes, took up his hat to go. 'Has nobody been, Toby?' asked Fagin. 'Not a living leg,' answered Mr. Crackit, pulling up his collar; 'it's been as dull as swipes.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

What dreadful work have they overlooked where Destiny sits alone, making evil years?
— from Plays of Near & Far by Lord Dunsany

Mr. Crackit, apparently somewhat ashamed at being found relaxing himself with a gentleman so much his inferior in station and mental endowments, yawned, and inquiring after Sikes, took up his hat to go.
— from Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens

“ ‘I do not absolutely know,’ I replied, ‘that such a magic exists, yet firmly believe it does.
— from The Wonderful Story of Ravalette by Paschal Beverly Randolph

"What's up, Florian?" "You've seen a Mr. Edgington?" "Your lawyer," replied the judge.
— from Double Trouble; Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Herbert Quick

Instead of "A man of eighty years of age," say "A man eighty years old."
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

As 1,200,000 tons of white salt are made every year at Northwich it follows that at least 1,200,000 cubic yards of solid foundation are removed from beneath Northwich each year.
— from The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various

But when the abating warmth of the sun shall attract more ears, you shall tell them, that I was the son of a freedman, and extended my wings beyond my nest; so that, as much as you take away from my family, you may add to my merit: that I was in favor with the first men in the state, both in war and peace; of a short stature, gray before my time, calculated for sustaining heat, prone to passion, yet so as to be soon appeased.
— from The Works of Horace by Horace

On my settling down to the business of the embassy, it appeared that the changes in public sentiment since my former stay as minister, eighteen years before, were great indeed.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White