Eight days later the real Edward arrives; he is not the Edward of church.
— from On Love by Stendhal

It may well be, said Sir Kay, for yet heard I never that ever good knight came out of Cornwall.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

To hang out a sign saying "Come right in; there is no one at home" is not the equivalent of hospitality.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

And, as I before said, Kant in this passage—being especially concerned to explain the possibility of moral imputation, and justify the judicial sentences of conscience—especially takes as his illustrations noümena that exhibit bad phenomena.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Now do I hear for the first time that which they have said so often: 'We good, we are the righteous '—what they demand they call not revenge but 'the triumph of righteousness '; what they hate is not their enemy, no, they hate 'unrighteousness,' 'godlessness'; what they believe in and hope is not the hope of revenge, the intoxication of sweet revenge (—"sweeter than honey," did Homer call it?), but the victory of God, of the righteous God over the 'godless'; what is left for them to love in this world is not their brothers in hate, but their 'brothers in love,' as they say, all the good and righteous on the earth."
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He is not the enemy, but the friend of man, who
— from Laws by Plato

My mother returned to her town apartments, which were opposite to mine, and the next day when I was calling on her I noticed the erker (a sort of grating in the Spanish fashion) which indicated my rooms in the hotel.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

" "I had intended never to enter your house again, Gray.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

He dreaded the secret enemies, who might lurk in his capital, his palace, his bed-chamber; and some ships lay ready in the harbor of Ravenna, to transport the abdicated monarch to the dominions of his infant nephew, the emperor of the East.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Our task, however, is not to examine the facts, but to prove that such conditions are unlawful, no matter where and
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

He hesitated on the threshold of the building, half inclined not to enter; to go, instead, {36} to a telephone and excuse himself for desertion on some pretext.
— from A Man's Hearth by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

So to the office, where a meeting extraordinary about settling the number and wages of my Lord Bruncker's clerks for his new work upon the Treasurer's accounts, but this did put us upon running into the business of yesterday about Carcasse, wherein I perceive he is most dissatisfied with me, and I am not sorry for it, having all the world but him of my side therein, for it will let him know another time that he is not to expect our submitting to him in every thing, as I think he did heretofore expect.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

The Senate guards jealously its right to determine whether an appointee is properly to be considered as belonging to any one of the twenty-one stipulated categories, and if it decides that he is not thus eligible, he is refused a seat.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

"Nay," says this Buddhist philosopher, "if you say there is another cause beside this Isvara, then he is not the end or sum of all, and therefore all that lives may, after all, be uncreated, and so you see the thought of Isvara is overthrown.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

He is not the exponent of culture, but more than any man of his own day, excepting Walt Whitman, he expresses the sterling, fearless, manly side of a great democracy.
— from My Contemporaries In Fiction by David Christie Murray

If he is familiar with the subject (and he is not to employ this method unless and until he is) he knows immediately, by “a sort of instinct” as Buckle called it, whether any new or valuable thought is on that page.
— from Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt

Have I not tried everything to make him agree to my terms?
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq