8. Our solar system, far from being alone in the universe, is only one of an extensive brotherhood bound by common laws and subject to like influences.—Draper.
9. Fight on, thou brave true heart, and falter not through dark fortune and through bright.—Carlyle.
10. Further,—and this was where the pinch came,—his reputation as a promoter had been most severely injured.—Janvier.
11. “So, my dear Miss Pyncheon,” said the daguerreotypist,—for it was that sole other occupant of the seven-gabled mansion,—“I am glad to see that you have not shrunk from your good purpose.”—Hawthorne.
12. The voice, for example, in a surprisingly large number of us, has a tired and plaintive sound.—Wm. James.
13. As for this old man, he had the beard of a saint and the dignity of a senator.—Howells.
14. Fortunately for us, want of food, great heat, extreme cold, produce promptings too peremptory to be disregarded.—Spencer.
15. In the first place, he was named “Frank,” a circumstance I mentally resented; but, what was more to the point, he had an evident desire to spill us over the steepest bank he could find.—Bolles.
16. Thanks to the beneficent mysteries of hereditary transmission, no capital earns such interest as personal culture.—C. W. Eliot.
17. The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.—Lamb.