Let the reader meditate for a moment upon the following point: to know reality is, in a way, an impossible pretension, because knowledge means significant representation, discourse about an existence not contained in the knowing thought, and different in duration or locus from the ideas which represent it.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Stuard tried to hold her, but her disorder increased in violence, and the coverlet was disarranged to such a degree that I could see the most exquisite naked charms imaginable.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

EMILIA No, Cassio is not kill'd.
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

In the second, I shall lead the Arabs to the conquest of Syria, Egypt, and Africa, the provinces of the Roman empire; nor can I check their victorious career till they have overthrown the monarchies of Persia and Spain.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And even now certain individuals endeavour to get rid of a partial colour-blindness that they may obtain a richer faculty of sight and discernment, in the course of which they find that they not only discover new pleasures, but are also obliged to lose and give up some of their former ones.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“I'm writing a satire on 'em now, calling it 'Boston Bards and Hearst Reviewers.'” “Let's hear it,” said Amory eagerly.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

To its nearest shore there is an easy passage from the city of Rutubi Portus, by the English now corrupted into Reptacaestir.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

In any case Malebranche is right: every natural cause is only an occasional cause.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Religio docenda est, non coercenda is a pretty piece of album Latinum for some kinde of throats that are willingly sore, but Hæresis dedocenda est non permittenda , will be found a farre better Diamoron for the Gargarismes this Age wants, if timely and throughly applyed.
— from The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward

Head somewhat oblong; eyes nearly contiguous in front, diverging hindward, where there is an elevated margin.
— from Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4 Zoology by Linnean Society of London

We have added to the Post-Office the departments of the Savings Bank and the Parcels Post; we have, for purely military reasons, extended our national dockyards and arms factories since the Crimean war, but without thereby enhancing national confidence in Government management; we have, for diplomatic purposes, bought shares in the Suez Canal; we have undertaken a few small jobs of testing and stamping, such as the branding of herrings; but we are now the only European nation that has no State railway; we have refrained from nationalizing the telephones, though legally entitled to do so; and we very rarely give subventions to private enterprises.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

Each natural cause is sufficient to account for its effect.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

If we mean by a gold currency a state of affairs in which gold is the principal or even, in the aggregate, a very important medium of exchange, no country in the world has such a thing.
— from Indian Currency and Finance by John Maynard Keynes

If you so much as quiver an eyelid, Nick Carter, I will call out your name, and point you out as a spy, and you know what that will mean in Mike Grinnel's dive."
— from A Woman at Bay; Or, A Fiend in Skirts by Nicholas (House name) Carter

He has much of the English national character, in the best sense of the word, and also the English love of domestic arrangement.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 by Various

Every normal child is naturally alert, curious, interested in what concerns him.
— from How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods by George Herbert Betts

It was an entirely new creation involving principles and methods of operation never before known or used by anybody.
— from The Invention of the Track Circuit The history of Dr. William Robinson's invention of the track circuit, the fundamental unit which made possible our present automatic block signaling and interlocking systems by American Railway Association