It is the worker's duty to stop his machine and draw attention to the fault; but if it can only be found on close inspection in the inspection room, and if it consists of, say, a capstan becoming loose, it may be impossible for the worker to detect the fault while the work is in process, and it is no fault of his.
— from A Rational Wages System Some Notes on the Method of Paying the Worker a Reward for Efficiency in Addition to Wages by Henry Atkinson

Passionless imperturbability, absolute detachment, complete subjection to a ready-made and finished reality—physical it may be, mental it may be, logical it may be—is its professed ideal.
— from The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought by John Dewey

It’s black, like its mamma, but its spots are white.”
— from Dixie Martin, the Girl of Woodford's Cañon by Grace May North

But, Lord, if my blood is useful for victory, may Thy will be done.
— from Fighting France by Stéphane Lauzanne

“Something must break loose in me before I can kill a man.
— from The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel by Zane Grey