The magnanimous character, who forgives his enemy, [Pg 278] and returns good for evil, rises to the sublime, and receives the highest meed of praise; because he recognises his real self even there where it is most conspicuously disowned.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

"You seem to have a sort of genius for establishing relations with people—seempathy, I suppose, or animal magnetism, or youthful vitality, or something.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Meyerbeer was fond of doing this, but other composers, Glinka for example, refrain from increasing the number of performers by employing extras (Eng. horn part in Rousslân ).
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And if any party, Mrs. Doctor, dear, will make it rain before the week is out, and save our kitchen garden from entire ruination, that is the party Susan will vote for.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

From what has been said, it is clear that all moral conceptions have their seat and origin completely a priori in the reason, and that, moreover, in the commonest reason just as truly as in that which is in the highest degree speculative; that they cannot be obtained by abstraction from any empirical, and therefore merely contingent, knowledge; that it is just this purity of their origin that makes them worthy to serve as our supreme practical principle, and that just in proportion as we add anything empirical, we detract from their genuine influence and from the absolute value of actions; that it is not only of the greatest necessity, in a purely speculative point of view, but is also of the greatest practical importance, to derive these notions and laws from pure reason, to present them pure and unmixed, and even to determine the compass of this practical or pure rational knowledge, i.e., to determine the whole faculty of pure practical reason; and, in doing so, we must not make its principles dependent on the particular nature of human reason, though in speculative philosophy this may be permitted, or may even at times be necessary; but since moral laws ought to hold good for every rational creature, we must derive them from the general concept of a rational being.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint-stock companies, the universities, and the public charities, were all of them branches of the government; if, in addition, the municipal corporations and local boards, with all that now devolves on them, became departments of the central administration; if the employés of all these different enterprises were appointed and paid by the government, and looked to the government for every rise in life; not all the freedom of the press and popular constitution of the legislature would make this or any other country free otherwise than in name.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

I had trained them in military discipline and in so much of the art of war as I had gleaned from extensive reading of the campaigns of Napoleon, Von Moltke, Grant, and the ancients.
— from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs

When they had gone far enough, Roland unfastened the boat, and sailed back with the current.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

To prevent that heretic of heretics, who was not to be bought with Spanish gold, from ever reigning, was the first object of Philip and Mucio.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) by John Lothrop Motley

I bowed my head and wept And scanned my life back: What was that in me Which made me homesick from a boy right through This life of mine, not for my home, for something, Some place, some hand, some scene, which made me dread All partings, overwhelmed me with a grief For ended raptures, kept my brain too full Of memories, never lost, that grew until I lost myself, and seemed a thousand selves Wandering through a thousand years, how restless!
— from Starved Rock by Edgar Lee Masters

"Madame," the King is heard to say, "have a care—you are going too far!" "No, my brother, I have not gone far enough," rejoins Madame.
— from Old Court Life in France, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

Mais onques n'oïstes la guerre, Qui tant fu dure et de grant fin Entre Renart et
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

The river was like a stream of golden fire, each ripple with a kind of phosphorescent gleam as the foam slipped away.
— from A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda M. Douglas