—Coarse men, who feel a sense of injury, are in the habit of rating the extent of their injury as high as possible and of stating the occasion of it in greatly exaggerated language, in order to be able to feast themselves on the sentiments of hatred and revenge thus aroused.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Amongst aristocratic nations, the ease of civil life exercises less influence on the manners of the army, because amongst those nations the aristocracy commands the army: and an aristocracy, however plunged in luxurious pleasures, has always many other passions besides that of its own well-being, and to satisfy those passions more thoroughly its well-being will be readily sacrificed.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

how thy melancholy grace Steals on my heart, as through these shades I wind! Sooth'd by thy breathing sigh, I fondly trace Each lonely image of the pensive mind!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

She glanced about, hoping to catch a glimpse of Gryce; but her eyes lit instead on the glossy countenance of Mr. Rosedale, who was slipping through the crowd with an air half obsequious, half obtrusive, as though, the moment his presence was recognized, it would swell to the dimensions of the room.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

One would have to believe in eternal life in order to... 228.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In this question, therefore, there is no medium between servitude and extreme license; in order to enjoy the inestimable benefits which the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils which it engenders.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Some Roman grammarians prescribed this spelling for every long i ; others tried to regulate the use of ei for ī by special rules.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

And she had always and consistently urged him to get a job, to go to work—good God!—as if he hadn’t been working, robbing sleep, exhausting life, in order to be worthy of her.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

When I met with a man of pleasure, sacrificing every laudable improvement of the mind, or of his fortune, to mere corporeal sensations, and ruining his health in their pursuit, Mistaken man , said I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle .
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

[Pg 286] for his eternal life instead of thinking of a wife.
— from Round the Corner Being the Life and Death of Francis Christopher Folyat, Bachelor of Divinity, and Father of a Large Family by Gilbert Cannan

Why should we use the equivocal word, 'substance' (after all but an ens logicum ), instead of the definite term 'self-subsistent?'
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

His purpose was not achieved without a severe struggle, in which the gipsy lost his bonnet, and was obliged to escape, leaving it on the road.
— from Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete by Walter Scott

Nestled snugly in a bend of the coast which shelters it from north and east, leaving it open to southern sunshine, while another curve of land protects it from the dense fogs which are so common at the Lizard, Cadgwith is, summer and winter, one of the pleasantest nooks imaginable.
— from An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

[125] This organization was composed in the main of Russian Jews already settled in this country, but the increasing demand on the Jewish people by the extraordinarily large influx of the refugees during 1891 necessitated a more general organization of the measures for their relief.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

"We can carry one of the canoes to that end, lift it over the wall, and launch it without being seen."
— from Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands by Herbert Strang

That the commission of great crimes, or the omission of great duties, may be expiated hereafter, was indeed an idea familiar to the Pagans, though it exercised little influence over their lives, and seldom or never produced, even in the case of the worst criminals, those scenes of deathbed repentance which are so conspicuous in Christian biographies.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The few words spoken, the hurried gestures, the passionate exclamations, are yet all deeply graven on my memory; and I can recall every little incident of the scene, and every feature of the locality wherein it occurred.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

But the ensemble was peculiarly striking and the man in the road took a quick glance around at the New England landscape in order to assure himself that he was still where he supposed he was.
— from The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot by Holman Day