You cannot redescend into the world of particulars by the Absolute's aid, or deduce any necessary consequences of detail important for your life from your idea of his nature.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

while I was out this morning, I bought this case of drawing instruments for you—there, dear.
— from Twice Killed: A Farce in One Act by John Oxenford

I want to know if it is reasonable He should kill people for asking for one change of diet in forty years.
— from Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Robert Green Ingersoll

above the union scale; your hours are the shortest; there is no Sunday-night shift; you have at your pleasure a gymnasium and a swimming-pool; you are each of you given a week's vacation in the summer on full pay, a thing no other concern of the kind in the state does; all the machinery is flawless, minimizing your chances of danger; in fact, you draw pay fifty-two weeks in the year in the squarest shop in the world.
— from Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath