But so far as we have for the basis of this concept [of Realism] only empirical principles derived from the actual purposive combination in the world, we cannot on the one hand find any remedy for the discordance that nature presents in many examples in respect of unity of purpose; and on the other hand, as to the concept of a single intelligent Cause, so far as we are authorised by mere experience, we can never draw it therefrom in a manner sufficiently determined for any serviceable Theology whatever (whether theoretical or practical).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Thence, parting kindly with my wife, I away by coach to my cozen Roger, according as by mistake (which the trouble of my mind for some days has occasioned, in this and another case a day or two before) is set down in yesterday’s notes, and so back again, and with Mr. Gibson late at my chamber making an end of my draught of a letter for the Duke of York, in answer to the answers of this Office, which I have now done to my mind, so as, if the Duke likes it, will, I think, put an end to a great deal of the faults of this Office, as well as my trouble for them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Be a good girl the rest of your days, and want shall be no motive to your going astray; and, believe me, there is more pleasure, even in this world, in an innocent and virtuous life, than in one debauched and vicious.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

But he wanted to show her that he was grateful, and the only mode that occurred to him was to offer Aaron a bit more cake.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

May you be as blessed for this generous action as you are adored by me for it.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

3. It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have the preference above the accurate and abstruse; and by many will be recommended, not only as more agreeable, but more useful than the other.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

He had swept it out of existence, as it seemed, without any provocation, as a boy might crush an ant hill, in the mere wantonness of power.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

me Miar, n. a bramble, a briar Miaren, n. bramble, briar Mic, n. a hoot; a spite, pique Micas, n. bread steeped Miciad, n. a hooting, a spiting Micio, v. to hoot; to spite Mich, n. a squeal, a squeak Michdan, v. to squeal Midiad, n. a hemming in Midd, n. enclosed place or pit Middi, n. pit in a river Mieri, n. brambles, briers Mierinllwyn, n. bramble bush Mig, n. a hoot; spite, malice Migen, n. a bog; a fistulous ulcer Migiad, n. a hooting; spitting Mign, n. a bog, quagmire Mignen, n. a bog, a quagmire Migniad, n. a becoming boggy Migus, a. hooting; malicious Migwern, n. boggy meadow Migwrn, n. knuckle; ankle Migwyn, n. white moss on bogs Migymguddio, v. hide and seek Migyrnog, a. large knuckled Migyrnu, v. to form a knuckle Mil, n. an animal, a beast Mil, n. thousand, ten hundred Milaid, a. of an animal nature Milaidd, a. like a beast, brutish Milain, n. a brute; a villain: a brutish; cruel, fierce Milast, n. a greyhound bitch Milcerdd, n. a millepede Mildraethawd, n. zoology Milddail, n. a yarrow Miled, n. a wild animal Miledd, n. brutishness Mileiddio, v. to brutalise Milein-gar, a. ferocious, fierce Mileiniad, n. a growing fierce Mileinio, v. to grow fierce Mileinig, a. brutish, ferocious Milfed, a. thousandth Milfedol, a. millesimal Milfedran, n. thousandth part Milfil, a. thousands of thousands Milflwydd, a. millennial Milflwyddiant, n. a millennium Milfyd, Milfyw, n. the figwort Milgi, n. a greyhound Milhanes, n. zoology Milplyg, n. thousand fold Milred, n. a millepede Milrith, n. fœtus, embryo Milrym, n. the woodsage Milwaith, n. a thousand times Milwr, n. a warrior Milwraidd, a. warrior-like Milwriad, n. a colonel Milwriaeth, n. warfare Milwrio, v. to carry on war Milwrus, a. warlike, militant Milwydd, n. the camomile Milyn, n. a little animal Mill, n. the voilet Milltir, n. a mile Millyn, n. a violet Mîn, n. edge, brink; lip Minau, pron.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

No pre-existing "idea" had anything to do with it: but utility, which teaches us that things can be reckoned with and managed, only when we view them roughly as equal.... Finality in reason is an effect, not a cause: Life degenerates with every other form of reason, although constant attempts are being made to attain to those other forms of reason;—for Life would then become too obscure, too unequal.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Aufidius, a blind man, 204 who had served the office of prætor, not only gave his opinion in the Senate, and was ready to assist his friends, but wrote a Greek history, and had a considerable acquaintance with literature.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A cold night," he said to himself, "and a bright morning."
— from Autumn by Robert Nathan

Leave all zat for me, which am a business man."
— from The Bad Man: A Novel by Porter Emerson Browne

"Lay it aside and bandage me again!
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul

He did not wish to attract attention by making inquiries concerning the Czar’s train, so he idled about the hotel, where he was fortunate enough to hear what he had expected.
— from The Boy Allies in the Baltic; Or, Through Fields of Ice to Aid the Czar by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

Always thinking of her, he stooped suddenly to lift the frail thing, and at the instant [Pg 170] a rifle-shot rang out in the still air, and a bullet meant for his heart cut across his shoulders like a trail of fire and flattened itself on the rock where he had been at work.
— from The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine

He who is a captious, impracticable, dissatisfied member of his little club or coterie is immediately set down as a bad member of the community in general, as no friend to regularity and order, as 'a pestilent fellow,' and one who is incapable of sympathy, attachment, or cordial co-operation in any department or undertaking.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

"Come, I did not deceive myself, you are a brave man."
— from A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue

Maidenhood and age attain A broader meaning as we view, Her record, glorious as true.
— from Songs for All Seasons, and Other Poems by Cora C. Bass

By a double door with monumental ironwork, set in a [Pg 165] wall as thick as a bastille, Mme. de Combray's apartments were reached, the first room wainscoted, then a boudoir, next a small room hidden by a staircase, and communicating with a lot of other small, low rooms.
— from The House of the Combrays by G. Lenotre

Oh, Agnes, Agnes, but my heart is heavy.”
— from Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton