The processes of nature, over which science exercises a real and magic an imaginary control, are not affected by the moral disposition, the good or bad intention, of the individual who uses his knowledge to set them in motion.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I make it a rule, as much as I can, to conform wherever I go.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

She said I might paint at Rosemount as much as I chose, but that I must not make it my business, because then I should have to go away to live.
— from Gritli's Children by Johanna Spyri

One never grows weary of contemplating such a perfect example as this of the art of the modern metal worker, that is modern since the old days of Greece and Rome, and modern as in comparison with the outburst of the great Italian Renaissance.
— from Chats on Old Sheffield Plate by Arthur Hayden

My feeling, my lord, is that at the next offence I should convey him to a retired spot, where I shall carry out the undertaking in as respectful a manner as is consistent with a thorough immersion.
— from The Admirable Crichton by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

These dreams regularly occur in the course of my treatment if the patient shows a resistance against me, and I can count with a large degree of certainty upon causing such a dream after I have once explained to the patient my theory that the dream is a wish-fulfillment.
— from Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud

“O, it begins in some bog or other, perhaps; just a little dribbling stream oozing out from among roots and mire, and it continually grows as it runs.”
— from Rollo's Museum by Jacob Abbott

My story of Malta will be with you by the time you have finished the Letters, and if it succeeds it will in a great measure enable me to attain the long projected and very desirable object of clearing me from all old encumbrances and expiring as rich a man as I could desire in my own freehold.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott

I was with you all in heart last night and recited as much as I could remember of "Twas the Night Before Christmas," which always means Dad to me, as he used to read it to us.
— from Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Richard Harding Davis