—People who have been deeply wounded by the disappointments of life look with suspicion upon all cheerfulness as if it were something childish and puerile, and revealed a lack of common sense that moves them to pity and tenderness, such as one would experience when seeing a dying child caressing his toys on his death-bed.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And I might add, with the utmost confidence that I am speaking the absolute truth, that in the case of no man or woman is it possible to charge her with any misfortune that has happened, but all the benefits that she confers and has conferred, and on whom, I would gladly recount in as many cases as possible, and report them one by one, how for instance this man, thanks to her, enjoys his ancestral estate, and that man has been saved from punishment, though he was guilty in the eyes of the law, how a third escaped a malicious prosecution, though he came within an ace of the danger, how countless persons have received honour and office at her hands.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Thus, I myself have seen a thorn which was embedded in a young man’s foot fail to Pg 85 Greek text come out when we exerted forcible traction with our fingers, and yet come away painlessly and rapidly on the application of a medicament.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

He soon grew tired, however, of his confinement, and procured a release, which it was said, cost him a thousand dollars.
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

“There are thousands and millions of combinations and possibilities, Avdotya Romanovna.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tilsit 264 77 LETTERS OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON TO THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE DURING THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST PRUSSIA AND RUSSIA, 1806-7. 1806.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Pray for her wish'd content and peace; And rest assur'd she'll never cease, To pray for all your joys increase, While life is lent to PAMELA.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

It was probably promised in the camp, and paid at Rome, after the victory.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The country through which we passed, between these two towns, is tropical in climate and productions and rich in scenery.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Moral wounds have this peculiarity,—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Hinc infertur, potestatem residentem in principe, rege, vel in pluribus, aut optimatibus, aut plebeiis, ab ipsa communitate aut proxime, aut remote proficisci.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

A subcommittee of the College also published a Report on the nature of the microscopic bodies found in the intestinal discharges of Cholera , London, 1849.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

Will everything else in the natural world unfold its order, and yield to Science more and more a vision of harmony, and Religion, which should complement and perfect all, remain a chaos?
— from Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond

Correspondents and politicians alike recognized the Honorable Herbert's new manner, and they bent forward with interest.
— from The Candidate: A Political Romance by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The people held a meeting in Blackfriars’ churchyard, and passed a resolution that if the convent still refused they would break their windows in Burgate, disable their mills, drive their tenants out of their houses; that they would allow no one to give, sell, or lend meat or drink to monks, and would seize carts and horses carrying food from their manors and sell them in the market; that they would arrest any monk coming out of the monastery into the city and take his clothes and property; that the monastery should be cut off from the world by a deep trench dug in front of its gate, and that no pilgrim should be allowed to enter the cathedral until he had taken an oath not to make the smallest offering.
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

Simple restoratives proved of no avail, and Wayland rushed off to the nearest telephone to call a physician, almost running over Miss Pennington, who was starting for a morning walk.
— from The Pleasant Street Partnership: A Neighborhood Story by Mary Finley Leonard

But as the day declines, the slanting beams In mellow lustre shine so calm and pure; A radiant flood of sunset glory streams, That lovelier grows and lovelier grows obscure.
— from Canadian Melodies and Poems by George E. (George Earle) Merkley

And though it may appear strange that such a change as produces a relaxation should immediately produce a sudden convulsion; it is yet most certainly so, and so in all the senses.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The dishes began to arrive: curries and pilafs and roasted kid; dolmas and chickens and kebabs; and then the nameless sweet dishes which Turkish cooks only know how to prepare.
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins

It revamped itself, creating directorates, offices and officers, codes and procedures, a radio station and a news agency, an electronic communications interception unit, a word of mouth messenger service and a general military staff, headed since February 1999 by "Sultan" and divided to seven operational zones.
— from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin