According to the Act of 1870 that now regulates the matter, real and personal property of every description may be acquired, held, and disposed of by an alien, in the same manner in all respects as by a natural-born British subject.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Some buns are rich; All buns are nice. 55.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

No one does anything without a reason, and books are not written for nothing, but to muddle people's heads.
— from In the World by Maksim Gorky

It can only exist “as a perfect synthesis,” which does not mean an endless number, which nevertheless somewhere comes to an end—again wooden iron—but something above all reckoning and beyond all number, as it is beyond space and time.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

One sees there in all their glory the three great masters of that school, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Rembrandt, accompanied by a numerous suite of inferior masters, at present much in vogue, Hobbéma, Cuyp, Both, Potter, and others, who, to our idea, fade completely before some half-dozen by Claude of all sizes, of every variety of subject, and nearly all of the best time of the great landscape-painter, between 1651 and 1661.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

Knowledge, affection, religion, and beauty are not less constant influences in a man's life because his consciousness of them is intermittent.
— from The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

The whole have an uninteresting and rocky appearance but are not altogether destitute of vegetation: a greenish tinge upon the nearest islet saved them from being condemned as absolutely sterile. September 6.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by Philip Parker King

Dogs like fighting; old Isaac says they “delight” in it, and for the best of all reasons; and boys are not cruel because they like to see the fight.
— from Spare Hours by John Brown

The little girl waited awhile, once more fitting the small patch into the big hole of Posy Jane’s jacket; then she went on as if nothing had occurred: “When we go there to live, me an’ you, we’ll have a room as big an’ nice as this an’ you won’t have to do a hand’s turn for yourself.
— from A Sunny Little Lass by Evelyn Raymond

Some buns are rich; All buns are nice.
— from The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll