All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

That we would do, / We should do when we would; for this "would" changes, / And hath abatements and delays as many / As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; /
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I slept at home, that is, at the house of Madam de Warens; but it was not as at Annecy: here were no gardens, no brook, no landscape; the house was dark and dismal, and my apartment the most gloomy of the whole.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Or if a doubt assailed me as to the coincidence of private and general happiness, I was inclined to hold that it ought to be cast to the winds by a generous resolution.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me; and, finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"And do all men appear to you to be able to give a reason for the things of which we have just now been speaking?"
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

There are two kinds of eunuchs, those that are disguised as males, and those that are disguised as females.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Sell every man his life as dear as mine, And they shall find dear deer of us, my friends.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

‘O’ course not,’ said Sam, ‘and nobody never did, nor never vill neither; and here am I a-walkin’ about like the wandering Jew—a sportin’ character you have perhaps heerd on Mary, my dear, as vos alvays doin’ a match agin’ time, and never vent to sleep—looking arter this here Miss Arabella Allen.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

"But what is this?" cried Peter Hovenden abruptly, taking up a dusty bell glass, beneath which appeared a mechanical something, as delicate and minute as the system of a butterfly's anatomy.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Yes, I could do that,” replied Saxe; and as soon as the breakfast was ended a wallet was filled with food, a couple of bottles with water, and Melchior took the rope, passed his head and right arm through it, and looked at Dale as much as to say, “I am ready.”
— from The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by George Manville Fenn

Patriotism, that had been to us but a dingy and meaningless antiquity, took on a new form, a new mien, a countenance divinely fair and forever young, and received once more the homage of our hearts.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

At the sixth week I began to employ strychnia in doses of one-thirtieth of a grain thrice a day at meals, and this was kept up for several months, together with the iron and malt.
— from Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

His words pierced my heart like daggers and daggers, and me and the Major ran in and out like wild things all day long till the Major returning from his interview with the Editor of the Times at night rushes into my little room hysterical and squeezes my hand and wipes his eyes and says “Joy joy—officer in plain clothes came up on the steps as I was letting myself in—compose your feelings—Jemmy’s found.”
— from Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings by Charles Dickens

For I see this thing, that the old gods are the gods that die not: All else is a seeming, a dream, a madness, a tide ever ebbing.
— from The Washer of the Ford: Legendary moralities and barbaric tales by William Sharp

It was a far distant city—about as far from St. Louis as Moscow is from Paris; and towns and enemies, and a large river, and defiles and mountains, and the desert whose ominous name, portending death to travellers— el jornada de los muertos —the journey of the dead—all lay between you.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

The views on sexual morality apparently differ as much as the actual practices.
— from The Family among the Australian Aborigines, a Sociological Study by Bronislaw Malinowski

Those who were attached to Mr. Hextal endeavoured to regain the pulpit for him by a process of law, pleading the right of the subscribers to a vote for the pastor; but this was overruled, as contrary to the deed which gives "the power to the Church (upon giving six days' notice by the deacons) to elect, place, and displace a minister as they think proper."
— from Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

“The Laws of Health and exercises enjoined by them” are the first feature of the curriculum; and riding, running, all the honest personal exercises of offence and defence, and music, are to be included under this head.
— from The Harvest of Ruskin by John W. (John William) Graham