So every man who is happy is a god; and though in nature God is One only, yet there is nothing to hinder that very many should be gods by participation in that nature.'
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

In this naked word sin , our Lord brought to my mind, generally, all that is not good , and the shameful despite and the utter noughting [2] that He bare for us in this life, and His dying; and all the pains and passions of all His creatures, ghostly and bodily; (for we be all partly noughted, and we shall be noughted following our Master, Jesus, till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully noughted of our deadly flesh and of all our inward affections which are not very good;) and the beholding of this, with all pains that ever were or ever shall be,—and with all these I understand the Passion of Christ for most pain, and overpassing.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

His love for his ill-gotten wife seems to be quite genuine, and there is no ground for suspecting him of having used her as a mere means to the crown.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

So that all art consists in this commerce, every soul being an artist and every brain that is worth talking about being an art gallery, and there is no gallery in this world, not in the Vatican or the Louvre or any other place, comparable with the gallery in every great brain.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The ascent to South Pass is very gradual, and there is no gorge or defile.
— from The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Life as he spoke seemed to become intense and exalted, and the invisible seemed on the point of becoming visible when he told her how the brotherhood greeted each other with, "Man is God, and son of God, and there is no God but man."
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore

What is good at twelve is not good at twenty: and he hoped not to stay at that, but to change and to go on changing always….
— from Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland

Gold is his god; and there is no god who exacts from his worshippers such undivided and unceasing devotion.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles by Alfred Plummer

Laurent became very pale, and for a moment remained silent, with his eyes fixed on his wife; then, in a trembling voice, he resumed: “Listen, my girl, don’t let us get angry; there is no good in that neither for you nor me.
— from Theresa Raquin by Émile Zola

Pulp board, such as Beaver board, is also very good, as there is no grain and, therefore, little liability of splitting.
— from Toy Craft by Leon H. Baxter