No such importation of novelties could enrich their intellectual stores at present.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

No finite measure can exhaust that infinite source; therefore an undiminished eternity is always open for the return of any event or work that was nipped in the bud.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The garden kind thereof is so well known (the root being commonly eaten) that I shall not trouble you with any description of it.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

“He's over to Dr. Duchesne's,” said Clytie eagerly; “that is,” she stammered, a rich color suddenly flushing from her temples to her round shoulders, “he's usually there in the evenings, I mean.”
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

“Why, would it not be better for her to be dead, than to be a beggar?” replied the Quaker: “for, as I told you, the fellow is not worth a groat; and surely she cannot expect that I shall ever give her a shilling.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

However, as I cannot but consider this as a breach of her generous confidence in my honour, you cannot expect that I shall, after this, continue to write myself or to receive letters, without her knowledge.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

IV ——Ah! how dark These long-extended realms and rueful wastes; Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night, Dark as was Chaos ere the Infant Sun Was rolled together, or had tried its beams Athwart the gloom profound!
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

So—I have gain'd much by my intended expostulation—yet with what a charming air she contradicts every thing I say—and how pleasingly she shows her contempt of my authority—Well tho' I can't make her love me, there is certainly a great satisfaction in quarrelling with her; and I think she never appears to such advantage as when she is doing everything in her Power to plague me.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The harvest was almost ready, and a brief holiday possibly justifiable in anticipation of that time of effort; but the journey was long and expensive, while, after our severe economies, I had fallen into the habit of slow consideration each time I spent a dollar.
— from The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

The work closes earlier, that is, so far as the day labourer is concerned, for he gets the best of this as of other things.
— from Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

The deeper charm even than in such things, however, is the social or historic note or tone or atmosphere of the church—I fumble, you see, for my right expression; the sense it gives you, in common with most of the Roman churches, and more than any of them, of having been prayed in for several centuries by an endlessly curious and complex society.
— from Italian Hours by Henry James

Your statement comes as a great surprise to me, and you cannot expect that I should credit your bare assumption.
— from The Shrieking Pit by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

Concentrate earnestly thus: I send out strong, positive, healing thought-waves of love to all mankind.
— from The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga Including the Practices and Exercises of Concentration, both Objective and Subjective, and Active and Passive Mentation, an Elucidation of Maya, Guru Worship, and the Worship of the Terrible, also the Mystery of Will-Force by Mukerji, A. P., swámi

In a few minutes, or what will seem but a few minutes —for surely, to the disembodied spirit, time cannot exist; though it sleep a billion years, it will be as a breath—I shall have solved the problem.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

But this opinion is not correct, because it is clearly evident that in such a case the head of the State has exceeded his powers, and that, therefore, the State concerned cannot be held to be bound by the treaty.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

There is something which I cannot explain that instinctively seems to satisfy one of certain conditions or impressions of another's mind.
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey

The town, attracting Colonel Everard to it sixteen years before, newly prosperous, outgrowing its old lumbering days, with the ship-building industry already a thing of the past, with the power in the little river awaiting development, money in the small but thriving bank, and a new spirit everywhere, beyond the control of old leaders, too progressive for a provincial magnate's direction, had been in the interesting and dangerous condition of a woman ready for her next love affair; if the right man comes, she may live happy ever after, but even if the wrong man comes, a flirtation is due.
— from The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton