" "But, my dear Mrs. Casaubon," said Mr. Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardor, "character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

HEROD But Cæsar is not coming into Judæa.
— from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde

Criticism is not construction; it is observation.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Still it seems to be a fact that any very powerful feeling, reaching to the full intensity of which our consciousness is normally capable, is commonly diminished by a contemporaneous stroke of cognitive effort: hence it is a general difficulty in the way of exact observation of our emotions that the object cognised seems to shrink and dwindle in proportion as the cognitive regard grows k
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

and from what country?" "From the land of rogues!" "My brave Ned, that country is not clearly indicated on the map of the world; but I admit that the nationality of the two strangers is hard to determine.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

And, though the description of the crest is not couched in accurate language, still the crest itself was accurately right.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

This is not invalidated by his passing from inaction to action; for creation involves no change in God's nature or attributes, and so no real or essential change, which is here meant.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Cum igitur nobis compertum iam sit, habere vos in vestris galeris, ex Reginæ nostræ serenissimæ Dominæ meæ subditis vnum et quinquaginta captiuos: non equidem dubitamus, quin eos omnes sitis relaxaturi, et ad nos missuri: ea lege, ac conditione, vt totidem ex
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Richard Hakluyt

The island of Ortygia, to which the modern city is now confined, is of an oblong shape, about two miles in circumference, lying between the Great Harbour on the west, and the Little Harbour on the east, and separated from the mainland by a narrow channel.
— from A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith

“I have no fancy for the compact, read it how you may,” said Charles, impatiently; “nor can I say which I like least,—the notion of marrying a woman who is bound to accept me, or accepting a forfeit to release her from the obligation.”
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever

[pg 159] CHAPTER IX NAVAL CAMPAIGN IN WEST INDIES IN 1781.
— from The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

A mould was afterwards taken from it, through the exertions of Mr. Gibson, and the cast is now common in Rome.
— from The Country House (with Designs) by Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir

How he managed it under the circumstances I never could imagine, for the staircase from the water to a high Dyak house is only the trunk of a tree with a few notches in it, and, at low tide, a case of slippery mud; this, placed at a steep angle, without any rail, is not easy
— from Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall

In those which may be called its native countries, it is not a medicine but a stimulant or sedative, used for the most part in much greater moderation but in the same manner as wine or spirits 110 among ourselves; as an indulgence pleasurable and innocent, if not actually desirable in itself.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

The chardge is now cum in , and I am now abel
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 by Various