I remember saying once to André Gide, as we sat together in some Paris café , that while meta-physics had but little real interest for me, and morality absolutely none, there was nothing that either Plato or Christ had said that could not be transferred immediately into the sphere of Art and there find its complete fulfilment.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

If the multiplying protoplasts, instead of taking equal portions of chromatin, have some of them smaller portions, the parts of the organ formed of these, developing less rapidly and having inferior energies, will throw the organ out of adjustment, and the individual will suffer in the struggle for life.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

[123] Never was a Marius, or Sylla, a Dionisius, or Falaris, his equal in cruelty; for in [268] every phase of cruelty he showed himself a past master of the class I have mentioned and the trees
— from The War of Chupas by Pedro de Cieza de León

Every person of consequence had some separate object, which he pursued with a fury that Waverley considered as altogether disproportioned to its importance.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

Every planet of Civilization had sent its every vessel capable of putting out a screen or of throwing a beam, but so immense was the number of warships in Grand Fleet that this increment, great as it intrinsically was, made no perceptible difference in its size.
— from First Lensman by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

"When I took up that extra pack of cards," he said abruptly, "I smelt that same perfume that hung about Sir Charles's clothes when he was dead."
— from The Mystery Queen by Fergus Hume

Having witnessed his play during 1845 to 1849, when he was still in full force, deep impressions remain with us of his extraordinary powers of combination, his soundness and accuracy.
— from Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. (Henry Edward) Bird