You may say it, but not swear it.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

There is in man’s nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Above all, arithmetic stirs up him who is by nature sleepy and dull, and makes him quick to learn, retentive, shrewd, and aided by art divine he makes progress quite beyond his natural powers (compare Republic).
— from Laws by Plato

For the substitution of the logical possibility of the conception—the condition of which is that it be not self-contradictory, for the transcendental possibility of things—the condition of which is that there be an object corresponding to the conception, is a trick which can only deceive the inexperienced.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Jopp gathered up the letters, and it being now somewhat late he did not attempt to call at Farfrae's with them that night.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Soon and with the first glance, Govinda realized: Now it is beginning, now Siddhartha is taking his own way, now his fate is beginning to sprout, and with his, my own.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Thus, as I believe, natural selection will always succeed in the long run in reducing and saving every part of the organisation, as soon as it is rendered superfluous, without by any means causing some other part to be largely developed in a corresponding degree.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

And to discover and destroy him I have slain a hundred knights, and crippled utterly as many more, and many have died in my prisons; and now, as I have told thee, I have many more therein, who all shall be delivered, if thou tell me thy name, and it be not Sir Lancelot.” “Well,” said Lancelot, “I am that knight, son of King Ban of Benwick, and Knight of the Round Table; so now I defy thee to do thy best!” “Aha!” said Turquine, with a shout, “is it then so at last!
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The temples at Tirunelli in Wynād and Tirunavayi, which are among the oldest in Malabar, were generally the resting-places of these images, but now some of the well-to-do deposit them much further afield, even at Benares and Rāmēsvaram.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

mutation of Pe Bechan, n. a little female; a. little, small Bechgynos, n. little boys Bechyn, n. a small hook Bed, n. a state of inaptiness Bedlemod, n. strollers Bedw, n. the birch Bedwen, n. a birchen Bederw, n. a birch grove Bedwlwyn, d. a birch grove Bedydd, a. baptizm Bedyddfa, n. a baptistry Bedyddfaen, n. baptismal font Bedyddfan, n. baptistry Bedyddio, v. to baptize Bedyddiol, a. baptismal Bedd, n. a grave, sepulchre Beddfaen, n. a tombstone Beddgor, n. mausoleum Beddlech, n. a gravestone Beddol, a. sepulchral Beddrod, n. burial place Beddrodol, a. sepulchral Beiad, n. a blaming Beiadwy, a. blamable Beichiad, n. a bawling; a loading Beichio, v. to bowl; to load Beichiog, a. burdened; pregnant Beichiogi, v. to become burdened; to conceive Beiddgar, a. presumptious Beiddiad, n. a daring Beiddio, v. to presume, to dare Beiddiol, a. presuming, daring Beiedig, a. blamed, cencured Beili, n. an outlet; a court, or yard; a mound Beio, v. to blame, to censure Beiol, a. blaming, censuring Beiri, n. a kite, a glead Beirniad, n. a judge Beirniadaeth, n. jurisdiction Beirniadu, v. to judge Beirniadol, a. critical Beisdon, n. sea-brink Beisfa, n. a shallow place Beisfan, n. a shallow place Beisfor, n. a shallow sea Beisgawn, n. a stack, a mow Beisgawniad, n. a stacking Beisgawnu, v. to stack corn Beisiad, n. a shallowing Beisiaw, v. to grove shallow Beisiawl, a. shallowing Beisle, n. shallow place Beius, a. faulty, blameable Beiusrwydd, n. blameableness Beiwr, n. a blamer; censor Bel, n. tumult; havoc; war Bela, n. a wolf; the henbane v. to wrangle; to war Belach, n. trouble, molestation Bele, n. the marten Belg, n. a ravage Belgiad, n. ravager; a Belgian Bellach, ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

See the account of the Mongol library in Bergman, Nomadische Streifereyen, vol. iii.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 by Edward Gibbon

"I don't know whether there can be anything in it boys," Ned started in to say, "but it seems queer that they should shut their companions up in here with us, if there wasn't some other means for escaping.
— from Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay; Or, The Disappearing Fleet by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

Well, I tell you, sir, there was never anything like it before nor since.
— from Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

'I believe not,' said I. 'Madam, I am assured of it.
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

The sound of the name itself brought no shock to Katrine.
— from Katrine: A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane

Only yesterday morning, after a week of this tender nursing, her head was a little nearer to me; and feeling that this was the last of such mornings, I being now sufficiently the better to be able to resume my ordinary day, I ventured to press my lips firmly upon the bright hair just above the noble forehead,—so intellectual, so exquisite, in the contour of its brows,—intending to signify gratitude for her care, and the end of my pleasant ailing.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

Lowering the sail I put out the sculls, and paddled back to a little inlet I had noticed near Cobo Bay, called Albecq Cove, a rocky little inlet, but nicely sheltered from the south-west wind, then gently blowing.
— from Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling

I don’t fancy it much; it needs a clearer head than mine to take in such abstract matters as the sides and angles of the triangle that can be imagined, but not seen.”
— from Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary by Daniel Dulany Addison

Pray heaven it be not so that you have such a man here; but 'tis most certain your husband's coming, with half Windsor at his heels, to search for such a one.
— from The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

It will be possible for a truth to be incomprehensible, but never so far as to justify the statement that one comprehends nothing at all therein.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von