"You are benefited by reading good books."  From Better English, Seventh Year by Jeschke, Potter & Gillet, 1930.

A tombstone-worthy sentence diagram: "If an inscription be put upon my tomb, it may be this."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"Sweet it is to have done the thing one ought."  From Hoenshel's Complete English Grammar, 1897.

"We drink that wine all day, till the last drop is drained up; and are lighted off to bed by the jewels in the cup."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"How far that little candle throws its beams."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901

"The brightest of all things, the sun, has its spots."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance."  From Hoenshel's Complete English Grammar, 1897.

"We reach the goal when, in the mansions of the blest, Death leaves to its eternal rest the weary soul."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"Often in a wooden house a golden room you find."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"Those things which are said to be done by Nature are done by Divine Art."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

This old sentence diagram could be printed as a talisman for wealth-building.  The sentence is even numbered "3," giving it triple potency.  May it work to give you more money than you know what to do with.  From Hoenshel's Complete English Grammar, 1897.

A word of caution: the Grim Reaper appears at the end of this:

"Leaves have their time to fall, and flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, and stars to set; but all, thou has all seasons for thine own, O Death." 

From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"Bring lilies to altar and shrine."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"The moon's veil is both her luster and her shade."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"In the wilds of fiery climes he made himself a home, and his soul drank their sunbeams."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"You will greatly oblige me by sending those books."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"How often have hearts beat in terror over evils that never occurred?"  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"Mice and rats were luxuriously fed by the thoughtless children."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"Night was made hideous by the howling of wolves."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.