[Jove hates],” because the generality of mankind seek their own good and hold that this is their proper business.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

We met, after I had brought home little Miles, more intimately than ever on the ground of my stupefaction, my general emotion: so monstrous was I then ready to pronounce it that such a child as had now been revealed to me should be under an interdict.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

How many start, and die on the road, from age and fatigue and disease and scanty nourishment, and how many die on the return, from the same causes, no one knows; but the tale is great, one may say enormous.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

"Go on, my son!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

There is something of the charm of discovery in lighting upon these wild and unexplored tracts of human nature—in witnessing, as it were, the native growth of moral sentiment, and perceiving those generous and romantic qualities which have been artificially cultivated by society vegetating in spontaneous hardihood and rude magnificence.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Here he ended the dialogue, which had been carried on in a low voice, in a corner of the outer office, by passing into Mr. Spenlow’s room, and saying aloud, in his smoothest manner: ‘Gentlemen of Mr. Spenlow’s profession are accustomed to family differences, and know how complicated and difficult they always are!’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

32 In view of the report of Hart and Lessing of calcium deposits in the adrenal glands of monkeys suffering from scurvy, special attention should be given to this point in necropsies on human beings.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Eluding his wife's restraining grasp, he gave one mad spring over the front of the pew and caught the unfortunate Whiskers-on-the-moon by his coat collar.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Like Samson of old, I have taken the gates of Gaza on my shoulders to carry them to the top of the mountain, and only when I was exhausted, when youth and health were quenched in me forever, I noticed that that burden was not for my shoulders, and that I had deceived myself.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Cigno carried two letters from the Governor of Massowah, she said.
— from The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy

Absolutely speaking, they say, there is no intrinsic contradiction in the assumption that God could preserve the physical entity of sanctifying grace in a soul guilty of mortal sin.
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

"I am perfectly sure," said Arnold dryly, "that Major Rebb will take advantage of Bellaria's death to fasten the guilt on Mavis, so that he may shut her up in an asylum, and, by thus preventing her marriage, will be enabled to keep her six thousand a year."
— from The Sealed Message by Fergus Hume

Christianity, in a word, pervades all parts of that great, varied, and fertile civilization, which is the glory of modern society.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

In the absence of his success or of his knowledge of any successful treatment, a hypodermic injection of 1/6 or even 1/4 grain of morphin sulphate is often curative.
— from Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

More widespread in its benediction, as embracing all races and all classes of society, is the relief of suffering, and the prevention of disease through the growth of modern sanitary science in which has been fought out the greatest victory in history.
— from Man's Redemption of Man: A Lay Sermon by William Osler

It was then but five o'clock in the afternoon, and he could not expect to reach home until two or three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day; but he was in a tremor of excitement as he thought that he should walk through the streets of Guilford once more, see all the boys, and go home to Uncle Daniel.
— from Toby Tyler; Or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis

On the opposite or north side of the Fulham Road, some small houses are called Selwood Place , from being built on part of the ground of “Mr. Selwood’s nursery,” which is mentioned in 1712 by Mr. Narcissus Luttrell, of whom more hereafter, as one of the sources from which he derived a variety of pear, cultivated by him in his garden at Little Chelsea.
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

"I come without soldiers," he said to them, "but with God on my side, to redress the evils of the land.
— from The Story of General Gordon by Jean Lang