Just over the grave, in a niche of the wall, is a bust of Shakespeare, put up shortly after his death and considered as a resemblance.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Thus, to sum up our discussion of the value of philosophy; Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids traveling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Such names as these have reference to Odin’s divinity as creator, arranger and ruler of gods and men.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

The fact that the figure here given ( Fig. 5 ) was identified by one so familiar with Semitic demonology as Calmet as a representation of him, is extremely interesting.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Holly-bushes Page 265 {265} are also met with, as in the crests of Daubeney and Crackanthorpe, and a rose-bush as in the crest of Inverarity.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Sheep, goats, deer, and camels are all ruminating animals, and are, of course, all furnished with the same apparatus for digestion; but in sheep the paunch is smaller, as they bite close to the ground, and take smaller mouthfuls than cattle; and in camels the second stomach, or receptacle for water, is much larger.
— from The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

He'll cool down and come around all right."
— from Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis Two Plebe Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

The union of the people of God must be maintained, defended and continually advocated, as right in itself and divinely required.
— from A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

So she went into an inner room and took out a bag of a thousand dollars, and clothes, and a robe, and turbans, and came and gave them to Omari, and said, "Take these and give them to my father, and say that they are from his daughter, Binti Fatima."
— from Black Tales for White Children by Nancy Yulee (Neff) Stigand

They aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.
— from Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the prince and the seaman joined hands the latter looked up from an altitude of five feet six and squared his broad shoulders with the air of a man ready to defy all creation, and anxious rather than otherwise to do so.
— from The Hot Swamp by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Here I sit in a land discovered and conquered as a result of the tremendous will power of the Europeans, with my oars gone, my rudder gone and my last bit of free will.
— from Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann

If I am driving a coach along a road, and I see another coach overturned by reckless driving, I am likely to be more careful for awhile, although there may be nothing more than coincidence in my seeing the drag overturned.
— from Under St Paul's: A Romance by Richard Dowling