Depend upon it, it is not you who are wanted; depend upon it, it is me” (looking at the butler); “but you are so very eager to put yourself forward.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

It is true that the question is worded vaguely enough, but if it means anything, it asks where the " philosophiae moralis fons et fundamentum "—the foundation of moral science—is to be sought for, i.e. , where it is to be found.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

Still another instance I may cite from Saigo, upon whose overhanging brows "shame is ashamed to sit;"—"The Way is the way of Heaven and Earth: Man's place is to follow it: therefore make it the object of thy life to reverence Heaven.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

If I attributed the stars' shining to the diligence of angels who lighted their lamps at sunset, lest the upper reaches of the world should grow dangerous for travellers, and if I made my romance elaborate and ingenious enough, I might possibly find that the stars' appearance and disappearance could continue to be interpreted in that way.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The Rabbit —The part played by the Rabbit or Hare and his symbolic character in Indian myth has been already noted (see “Stories and Story Tellers”).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Their discontent died away in idle murmurs, and Caracalla soon convinced them of the justice of his cause, by distributing in one lavish donative the accumulated treasures of his father's reign.
— 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

Pete's aristocratic person looked as if it might soil.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

But I do not believe in capital punishment for petty theft, and, anyhow, if I must lose either a song or a strawberry, I had rather lose the strawberry.
— from The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd

You have only to think of Euclid and his "Elements," of Apollonius and his Conics, of Eratosthenes and his determination of the earth's circumference, of Archimedes and his mensuration of the sphere, and of the inscription on Plato's Academy, Let none ignorant of geometry enter my door , to realize the fondness of the Greek mind for abstract truth and its suppleness and ingenuity in mathematical investigation.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

It was his talk of Natalie and Natalushka that put it in my head; perhaps it was a stupid fancy."
— from Sunrise by William Black

The world is ill, my time is short and my strength is small.
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I deem this trend towards Christ, and it is marked especially among the educated in all parts of India, as the greatest encouragement to the Christian worker in that land today.
— from India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by John P. (John Peter) Jones

And, indeed, in the face of his own common sense, it impressed Mr. Ivor Dacre too.
— from Amusement Only by Richard Marsh

But if you really find yourself unhappy there after the term is finished, then it is Miss Quest's belief and mine also that you employ the period that otherwise should have spent at Vassar, in acquiring some regular and legitimate profession so that if ever the need comes you shall be able to take care of yourself.
— from The Restless Sex by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Now thought must be free in its movements.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel