And I say of the same order, for the further reason that while we may ascribe to them a general likeness in nature, we must suppose a great unlikeness in degree.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

We may sometimes take greater liberties in November than in May.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Gloomy Lamoignon is not to die by conflagration, or this night; not yet for a year, and then by gunshot ( suicidal or accidental is unknown ).
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

] I suppose it was invented to mitigate the extreme pains, and allay the inflammations of wounds, for which it is very good: let it not be applied to any principal part.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

a guide, leader; in N.T., a teacher, instructor, Mat. 23.8, 10.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Where great love is not, a more definite and less satisfactory conclusion is reached.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Le sue parole e 'l modo de la pena m'avean di costui gia` letto il nome; pero` fu la risposta cosi` piena.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Five are the shapes that kings assume, Of majesty, of grace, and gloom: Like Indra now, or Agni, now Like the dear Moon, with placid brow: Like mighty Varuṇ now they show, Now fierce as He who rules below.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

During this excursion I learned one good lesson, if no more.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

While Greek love is not a sentiment, it may be sentimental, that is, an affectation of sentiment , differing from real sentiment as adulation does from adoration, as gallantry or the risking of life to secure favors do from genuine gallantry of the heart and self-sacrifice for the benefit of another.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

No one would confess to being tired of it, but sometimes there were two or three days between the delivery of [144] mails, which were steadily growing lighter; indeed, no one but Lady Alma Cara and Mr. Oliver Twist were still faithful correspondents.
— from The Blissylvania Post-Office by Marion Ames Taggart

"If when the bodily constitution is gone, life is no longer endurable, though pampered with every sort of meats and drinks, and having all wealth and all power, shall we be told that life is worth having when the very essence of the vital principle is undermined and corrupted, even though a man be allowed to do whatever he pleases, if at the same time he is forbidden to escape from vice and unrighteousness, or attain righteousness and virtue, seeing that we now know the true nature of each?"
— from The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde

It is a significant fact that the pure Georgian language is now far more generally spoken than it has been for many centuries, and that the dialects are rapidly disappearing.
— from The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song by John Oliver Wardrop

Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

And this truth, true of all centuries of German literature, is never truer than here.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury