Late, very late, the human intellect checks itself: and now the world of experience and the thing-in-itself seem to it so severed and so antithetical that it denies the possibility of one's hinging upon the other—or else summons us to surrender our intellect, our personal will, to the secret and the awe-inspiring in order that thereby we may attain certainty of certainty hereafter.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This whole matter of cleaning is a neglected science and worthy of a thesis all to itself.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

Wedding Anniversaries 1 year, paper 5 years, wood 10 years, tin 15 years, crystal 20 years, china 25 years, silver 50 years, gold 75 years, diamond Wedding anniversaries are celebrated in any number of ways.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

[ 526 ] Ku′să-nûñnâ′hĭ—“Creek trail,” from Ku′să , Creek Indian, and nûñnâ′hĭ , path, trail; cf. Suwâ′lĭ-nûñnâ′hĭ .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

It seems to be common in all nations to whom commerce and manufactures are little known.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

For however commonplace the subject seen by the artist in one of his "flashes," it is clothed in a newness and surprise that charm us, be it only an orange on a plate.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

All the more did the affairs of the great world interest her, when communicated in the letters of high-born relations: the way in which fascinating younger sons had gone to the dogs by marrying their mistresses; the fine old-blooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir, and the furious gouty humors of old Lord Megatherium; the exact crossing of genealogies which had brought a coronet into a new branch and widened the relations of scandal,—these were topics of which she retained details with the utmost accuracy, and reproduced them in an excellent pickle of epigrams, which she herself enjoyed the more because she believed as unquestionably in birth and no-birth as she did in game and vermin.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

All this proves that the cosmological ideas are nothing but regulative principles, and not constitutive; and that their aim is not to realize an actual totality in such series.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The enthusiasm of the first crusade is a natural and simple event, while hope was fresh, danger untried, and enterprise congenial to the spirit of the times.
— 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

“Only about two hundred years or so after their return from Babylon did the Jews seem to consolidate into a nation, and the collection and translation of their old mythic records—deciphered with much difficulty by the diligent librarians of Ptolemy Philadelphus from “old shreds and scraps of leather”—no doubt materially aided in consolidating the people and in welding them into what they became—clans proud of a sort of a mythic history built up by Ezra and other men acquainted with Babylonian records and popular cosmogonies.”
— from The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. (Richard Brodhead) Westbrook

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring and portioning out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
— from The Crayon Papers by Washington Irving

For all its dogmatism in religion and politics, its long arguments in defence of the author's favourite opinions, and its defective construction, the novel, if one can call it a novel, is one of Balzac's best creations.
— from Balzac by Frederick Lawton

How he came or went, I cannot imagine, and never shall know.
— from The Slipper Point Mystery by Augusta Huiell Seaman

In this way my friend, who is a clerk, in a newspaper office, heard the President talk for an hour.
— from The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend

Now, whenever emancipation is to be proposed in our own colonies, I anticipate neither political parties , nor civil wars , nor foreign invasion , but a time of tranquillity and peace .
— from Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure. by Thomas Clarkson

He seemed to have atmospheric intelligence of her better will towards him, for he said, as if it were something she might feel an interest in: "If I can get a play that will suit, I shall take the road with a combination immediately after New Year's.
— from The Story of a Play A Novel by William Dean Howells

“How his knowledge came I am not sure—yet.
— from The Evil Shepherd by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The artist executed the commission with unflagging zeal and care, Miss Welwyn following every stroke of the pencil with critical interest and numbering off the animals as they were created.
— from Happy-go-lucky by Ian Hay

The corporation I am now working for is interested in me to the same extent that I am interested in my work.
— from The Iron Boys as Foremen; or, Heading the Diamond Drill Shift by James R. Mears