19. Indeed, to do the best for others is finally to do the best for ourselves; but it will not do to have our eyes fixed on that issue.—Ruskin.

20. He had always (it must not be forgotten) to contend against sad memories and anticipations of further sorrow.—Ainger.

21. But up to a considerable maturity of childhood I believed Raphael and Michael Angelo to have been superhuman beings.—Holmes.

22. As a whole, she appeared to carry with her a sort of argumentative commentary on her own existence.—T. Hardy.

23. But, to judge the action fairly, we must transport ourselves to the age when it happened.—Prescott.

24. But winter is apt to be very severe in mild climates.—Howells.

25. To make a long story short, the company broke up and returned to the more important concerns of the election.—Irving.

26. The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion is to speak and write sincerely.—Emerson.

27. You must be brave to have come so long and dangerous a journey.—Old Deccan Days.

28. I have none to call me Charley now.—Lamb.