Why , permit me to repeat myself, do I find you here, an unbidden guest?' 'To say that I never guessed you'd find me here,' answered the magician, 'might seem a mere trifling with language and with your feelings.' 'My feelings!' exclaimed the proud girl, indignantly, 'just as if—— But answer me!' 'When a man has seen as much of life as I have,' answered the magician, 'when the Æons are to him merely as drops in a bucket which he will never kick—and when he suffers,' he added mournfully, 'from attacks of multiplex personality, he recognises the futility of personal explanations.'
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

Every man, and thou my present Reader canst do this: Be thyself a man abler to be governed; more reverencing the divine faculty of governing, more sacredly detesting the diabolical semblance of said faculty in self and others; so shalt thou, if not govern, yet actually according to thy strength assist in real governing.
— from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

“Then I pray you keep account of them, my Lord, that you may pay me their value when we come to settle our score, seeing that I never gave you leave to shear my sheep and harvest my corn.”
— from The Lady of Blossholme by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

If you say 'There is no God,' you speak without thinking.
— from Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts by August Strindberg

I am up to your tricks, you damned young chaps: when you get on shore, there is no getting you off again.
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat