For richly endowed natures, life and the world have a special interest beyond the mere everyday personal interest which so many others share; and something higher than that—a formal interest.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

Il ne fait rien, et nuit à qui veut faire —He produces nothing, and hinders those who would.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Do you feel rather easier?” “No, I am suffocating.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In the fourth row every number is formed by adding together the number just above it and the preceding number.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Well, Zosia, make your toilet; get the things from my desk, you will find ready everything needed for dressing.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

It appears slightly anterior to the septomaxillary at the level of the foramen ramus externus narium and ramus medialis narium.
— from Cranial Osteology of the Hylid Frog, Smilisca baudini by Linda Trueb

Such assistance as can be given through the action of the public authorities and of our private citizens, through friendly counsel and cooperation, and through economic and financial support, not for any warlike effort but for reproductive enterprise, not to provide means for unsound government financing but to establish sound business administration should be unhesitatingly provided.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

If we may judge from recent English newspapers, there is to be another cry against us, on account of the Florida, not unlike that on account of the Trent.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

I am from Rookwood even now.
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

There was a bald-headed old fool who used to come and sit in the front row every night and throw kisses to me, and one night he threw me a bouquet with a bracelet in it.
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Even Sanch, feeling that his fate was at stake, endeavored to help in his own somewhat erratic way,—now frisking about Ben at the risk of getting his tail chopped off, then trotting away to poke his inquisitive nose into every closet and room whither he followed Mrs. Moss in her "flying round" evolutions; next dragging off the mat so Betty could brush the door-steps, or inspecting Bab's dish-washing by standing on his hind-legs to survey the table with a critical air.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 by Various

Credit by note of hand, credit by book account, credit by mortgages and hypothecations, credit by bills of exchange, credit by certificates of stock, credit by bank-notes and post-notes, credit by exchequer and treasury drafts, credit, in short, in a thousand ways, enters into trade, filling up all its channels, turning all its wheels, freighting all its ships, coming down from the past, pervading the present, hovering over the future, reaching every nook and affecting every man and woman in the civilized world.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various