"As for nerves, I haven't got any; I must have shed them with my first teeth."  From Jewel Mysteries I Have Known by Max Pemberton, 1894.

From Misadventure by William Edward Norris, 1891.

"Truth prevails and virtue is triumphant," all eye-rolling aside!  From The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens.

From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

From The Post-Humorous Notes of the Pickwickian Club, 1837.

From International Studio, 1897, illustrated by Percy Smith.

From New Detective Stories by Gilbert Edward Campbell, 1891.

"The times have been that when the brains were out, the man would die, and there an end." —Macbeth.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Masterpieces of German Literature, 1913.

"Crossing the burning bridge," from The Biography of a Locomotive Engine by Henry Frith and illustrated by P. Hardy, 1891.

"The death-fires danced at night," from The Blue Poetry Book, edited by Andrew Lang, 1891.

A vintage storage tip: find a cool, dark place to stockpile your champagne, money bags, bonds, and mortgages.  From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

Whatever is under the bed exclaims, "I will speak."  From Review of Reviews and World's Work, 1904.

From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

From Goops and How to be Them by Gelett Burgess, 1900.  The text reads, "I have a notion / The Books on the shelves  / Are just as much persons / As we are, ourselves.  / When you are older, / You'll find this is true; / You'd better be careful / To make Books like you!"

"Stuyvesant's vision," from Bill Nye's History of the United States, illustrated by F. Opper, 1894.  Note that Stuyvesant is missing the wrong leg here.

"Twill matter nought in fifty years."  Surely she jests (too)?  From The Ballad of a Jester and Other Poems by J. Redfearn Williamson, 1891.