The broad sympathies and discerning insight needed for the healing of earthly woes cannot flow from a mere intellectual consideration of man's diversities, but from knowledge of man's sole unity-his kinship with God.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

A most interesting class of men belong to this order, the chameleons; they are not necessarily at loggerheads with themselves, they are both happy and secure, but they cannot develop—their moods lie side by side, even though they may seem to lie far apart.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It has been delightful to me to watch his advances towards intimacy, especially to observe his altered manner in consequence of my repressing by the cool dignity of my deportment his insolent approach to direct familiarity.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

This is distasteful to me, and irritates my patience; let him keep patient at such sights who has nothing to lose thereby,––such a sight enrages me, such spectators embitter me against the "play," even more than does the play itself (history itself, you understand); Anacreontic moods imperceptibly come over me.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I remained alone in a miserable room in which all his family, sleeping together in a large, ill-looking bed, were staring at me in consequence of my extraordinary costume.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the meanwhile Theodore assisted me in carrying off my antiquated Prize.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

And then, as I stood staring up at him and he down at me, it came over me who he was, and I can recall even now how my heart seemed to jump, and I felt terribly frightened and as though I were going to cry.
— from Captain Macklin: His Memoirs by Richard Harding Davis

2) Digital imagery can improve access to recorded knowledge through printing and network distribution at a modest incremental cost of microfilm.
— from Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992 by Library of Congress

—A male is capable of marrying at 18 years, a female at 15 years.
— from Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose

Address me in care of Mr. Ripley, Barrister, of Lincoln's Inn, and bid Richard Carvel write me." "Which does not look as if she were coming back within the year," said Betty, as she poured me a dish of tea.
— from Richard Carvel — Volume 02 by Winston Churchill

The beginning of a most ingenious course of mental training by a series of playthings is made almost from the very first.
— from Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Monumental brasses , a most interesting class of memorials, occur from the thirteenth century to the era of the mural tablets now in use.
— from The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE Allowing, as every competent thinker must allow, a full measure of validity to the contention that social developments are matters of slow growth and gradual attainment rather than of sudden and catastrophic change; admitting that even in the sphere of scientific discovery and mechanical invention changes occur much more gradually than a cursory glance at individual achievements would suggest; recognising that many of the most remarkable changes whose arrival in the past is the only possible valid guide to anticipation of similar or kindred changes in the future; it is still a condition of such anticipation that we should take account of causes likely to be operative in altering the rate at which the world will move.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell