Eliza generally took no more notice of her sister’s indolence and complaints than if no such murmuring, lounging object had been before her.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

As each species tends by its geometrical ratio of reproduction to increase inordinately in number; and as the modified descendants of each species will be enabled to increase by so much the more as they become more diversified in habits and structure, so as to be enabled to seize on many and widely different places in the economy of nature, there will be a constant tendency in natural selection to preserve the most divergent offspring of any one species.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

He may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continued, which he calls himself; though I am certain there is no such principle in me.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Thus, as Fritz Muller has lately remarked, in the same group of crustaceans, Cypridina is furnished with a heart, while in two closely allied genera, namely Cypris and Cytherea, there is no such organ; one species of Cypridina has well-developed branchiae, while another species is destitute of them.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

As each species tends by its geometrical rate of reproduction to increase inordinately in number; and as the modified descendants of each species will be enabled to increase by as much as they become more diversified in habits and structure, so as to be able to seize on many and widely different places in the economy of nature, there will be a constant tendency in natural selection to preserve the most divergent offspring of any one species.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Here we easily see that nothing can be given in nature, however great it is judged by us to be, which could not if considered in another relation be reduced to the infinitely small; and conversely there is nothing so small, which does not admit of extension by our Imagination to the greatness of a world, if compared with still smaller standards.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

For while the reward of action is contemplation or, in more modern phrase, experience and consciousness, there is nothing stable or interesting to contemplate except objects relevant to action—the natural world and the mind's ideals.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

All criticism that is not so grounded spreads as fog over a poet’s page.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

There is such a thing as crime, there is no such thing as crime; there is no such thing as justice, there are no just men; atheism, Darwinism, the Moscow bells.…
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

M. Paul Nourrisson is therefore perfectly right in saying: "There are as many Masonries as countries; there is no such thing as universal Masonry."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Among certain tribes in New South Wales, as soon as the fight is concluded, “both parties seem perfectly reconciled, and jointly assist in tending the wounded men.”
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Since the small-pox in 1819, which attacked chiefly the Indians, no serious epidemic had visited the province.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

Other observers may have seen very different things, but that only proves what I am constantly asserting: that birds are individuals; that because one shrike does a certain thing is no sign that another will do the same; it is not safe to judge the species en masse .
— from Upon The Tree-Tops by Olive Thorne Miller

Possibly, therefore, because of their strong social ambitions, the manual workers in America more than elsewhere adopt a costume that is not sensible or sanitary.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

It may be that this is not agreeable to the spirit of the times, but I shall make the attempt—" "Considering there is no spirit in the times, we might as well expect to inform its skull with genius by means of a lighted candle.
— from The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Specific emotional manifestation is, however, absent, and their actions seem to be in nowise affected by the powerful impulse which only a few minutes previously determined their conduct, for of the characteristic flight with its accompanying cry there is no sign.
— from Territory in Bird Life by Henry Eliot Howard

But to encourage habits of restlessness and crying there is no surer way than to follow this bad advice and to permit the child to cry till he is utterly exhausted in body and in mind.
— from The Nervous Child by Hector Charles Cameron

Every Nativity Hawker condemns the Rosie Crucians because they appear not to the world, and concludes there is no such society because he is not a member of it, and Mr. Heydon will not come upon the stage (let his enemies write or speak what they will) when any fool cries enter, neither doth he regard every dog that barks at him.
— from Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples by Anonymous

Amethyst knew that her letter was abrupt and outspoken, but in the effort to leave no doubt behind, she could do the ungracious and cruel thing in no softer fashion.
— from Amethyst: The Story of a Beauty by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

And certainly there is no stem more likely than this, of the origin of which
— from Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson