Whether we consider him as a man, with his powerful yet gracious personality, or as a religious reformer, who did much to break down old religious prejudices by showing the underlying beauty and consistency of the Roman church, or as a prose writer whose style is as near perfection as we have ever reached, Newman is one of the most interesting figures of the whole nineteenth century.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

For every one strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible, wishes to secure the greatest possible fullness of life for himself; but meantime all his efforts result not in attaining fullness of life but self-destruction, for instead of self-realization he ends by arriving at complete solitude.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Slowly and inquiringly he looked for several seconds at his mother standing motionless before him, then all at once he smiled a blissful smile, and shutting his eyes, rolled not backwards but towards her into her arms.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

No envious cloud o'ercast his evening ray; No wrinkle, furrow'd by the hand of care, Nor ever sorrow add one silver hair!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

It is clear that he intended to deceive no one by his disguise; fears of the inquisition are sometimes visible during his life in Rome; he entered Rome notoriously with the works of Voltaire in his possession; the thought of what Count Buenau might be thinking of him seems to have been his greatest difficulty.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Lakshmaṇ however exhorts Ráma not to grieve, but to abandon him and not break his own promise.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Mr. Snodgrass seized his friend’s hand warmly, as he enthusiastically replied, ‘Not for worlds!’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The most ancient works of Art which we possess are representations of animals, rude indeed, but often strikingly characteristic, engraved on, or carved in, stag's-horn or bone; and found in English, French, and German caves, with stone and other rude implements, and the remains of mammalia, belonging apparently to the close of the glacial epoch: not only of the deer, bear, and other animals now inhabiting temperate Europe, but of some, such as the reindeer, the musk sheep, and the mammoth, which have either retreated north or become altogether extinct.
— from The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir

Dessein, in their own sensations,—I’m persuaded, to a man who feels for others as well as for himself, every rainy night, disguise it as you will, must cast a damp upon your spirits:—You suffer, Mons.
— from A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne

His mouth was as hard as the lawyer's and his eye revealed nothing.
— from Simon by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

Warned by the former incivility which he had excited, Russell now thought proper to leave all enquiries to Frederick, who with a kind, "good morrow my lad," begged to know where
— from Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 2 of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

After the capture of Preston some of the royalist horse who had escaped rode northwards toward Lancaster.
— from The Great Civil War in Lancashire (1642-1651) by Ernest Broxap

Now at this new good fortune I rejoice; yet somewhat also I grieve, even to behold how envy requiteth noble deeds[2].
— from The Extant Odes of Pindar Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers by Pindar

But the sword of the Lombards opposed his settlement in Italy: he entered Rome not as a conqueror, but as a fugitive, and, after a visit of twelve days, he pillaged, and forever deserted, the ancient capital of the world.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

This plan was adhered to, and I have every reason now to believe that all my letters to Lincoln, although they contained no great secrets of state, passed unread into his hands.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Conscience persistently tormented him, and finally drove him back to belief in God, not the collective Karma of the Theosophists, which he expressly repudiated, nor to any new god expounded in New Thought magazines, but to the transcendent God who judges and requites, though not at the end of every week.
— from The Inferno by August Strindberg