The only permanence is to be found in the currents of divine energy, infinite and exhaustless.
— from The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

It is absolute, it is centralized, it works through favorites, it is backward, it makes mistakes, it has reverses: how many causes of discontent embraced in a few words!
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

All that we have formerly said respecting supernatural appearances in general, applies with peculiar force to the belief of ghosts; for whether the cause of delusion exists in an excited imagination or a disordered organic system, it is in this way that it commonly exhibits itself.
— from Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Walter Scott

In this other form, which is entitled ‘Suggestions to medical practitioners respecting certificates of the cause of death,’ elaborate instructions are set forth under ten separate clauses, with examples showing in what way the death-certificates are to be filled up, but not one word of instruction or caution as to the fact of death—whether it be real or apparent—the absolute signs of death, or the steps to be taken in doubtful cases, or in the various forms of suspended animation, such as coma, trance, catalepsy, etc.”
— from Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by William Tebb

Whether people’s gratitude for the good gifts that come to them be wisely conceived or dutifully expressed, is a secondary matter, after all, so long as they feel gratitude.
— from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson

Every effort made to send these men to the rear as prisoners under charge of details ended in a report from the commander of the detail that the negroes had "escaped."
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 2 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

But the misfortunes of their children still weighing upon their minds, Cadmus one day exclaimed, "If a serpent's life is so dear to the gods, I would I were myself a serpent.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch

But the further question as to how far it becomes the duty of the State to undertake the provision of remedial measures either in the way of supplying medical aid or in the provision in necessitous cases of remedial measures, as e.g. spectacles in the case of defective eyesight, is a question of much greater difficulty.
— from The Children: Some Educational Problems by Alexander Darroch