9. Marble columns may, indeed, moulder into dust, time may erase all impress from the crumbling stone, but their fame remains; for with American liberty it rose, and with American liberty only can it perish.—Webster.
10. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.—Emerson.
11. The first attempt of the season, I suspect, had failed in a more secluded place under the hill, so the pair had come up nearer the house for protection.—Burroughs.
12. With a very few exceptions, both the red and the white coral polyps are, in their adult state, firmly adherent to the sea-bottom; nor do these buds naturally become detached and locomotive.—Huxley.
13. But hospitality must be for service and not for show, or it pulls down the host.—Emerson.
14. The wide expanse of grassy upland stretched before them; overhead the arch of heaven, chequered by the white clouds, was full of life and light and motion; across the water of the lakes the church bells, rung for amusement by the village lads, came to the ear softened and yet enriched in tone; the spring air, fanned by a fresh breeze, refreshed the spirits and the sense.—Shorthouse.
15. Milton’s nature selected and drew to itself whatever was great and good, while it rejected all the base and pernicious ingredients by which those finer elements were defiled.—Macaulay.
16. Let us drive her away or hide the pomeloes, else she will go and tell her mother all about it, and that will be very bad for us.—Old Deccan Days.
17. As a matter of fact we find ourselves believing, we hardly know how or why.—Wm. James.
18. A man can have himself shot with cheerfulness, but it needs first that he see clearly for what.—Carlyle.