Anyway, it is a story of devotion to others, and of principle practised with the hatred and contempt and cowardly timidity which should only characterize villains, and villainous actions; of principle carried to such an extent as to become a wrong; but from this hour I shall act from a right motive, in which my heart sympathizes; which affords me a return for effort, and which will aid in making me a better man.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
Such games form the best elements out of which the child's life power can be made, especially if the adulthood of his home sympathizes with him in his enterprises.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
It was indeed the golden age, speaking in a worldly sense, but not in a spiritual one; yet the average Maltese not only sympathizes with the profession of these Knights, but even indorses their daily lives, public and private, which would not bear for one moment the conventional test of our modern civilization.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou