As I got on the horse, I looked at the student and Ananyev for the last time, at the hysterical dog with the lustreless, tipsy-looking eyes, at the workmen flitting to and fro in the morning fog, at the embankment, at the little nag straining with its neck, and thought: “There is no making out anything in this world.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And the beholding of this went not from me: for by the Shewing I was not stirred nor led therefrom in no manner of point, but I had therein teaching to love it and find it
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Nothing but her skin which, to speak the truth, is not made of lilies and roses.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It is not meant, of course, that each individual is left to his own unassisted judgment in dealing with such questions: there is a mass of traditional experience, which each individual imbibes orally or from books, as to the effects of conduct upon happiness; but the great formulæ in which this experience is transmitted are, for the most part, so indefinite, the proper range of their application so uncertain, and the observation and induction on which they are founded so uncritical, that they stand in continual need of further empirical verification; especially as regards their applicability to any particular case.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

And to prove that this is not my own theory, 86 first I will relate to you something that Diogenes did, which the many will ridicule but to me it seems most dignified.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

From causes, which this is not the place to investigate, no models of past times, however perfect, can have the same vivid effect on the youthful mind, as the productions of contemporary genius.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

At last she was fairly clean, though Farfrae, having got over his first concern at the situation, seemed in no manner of hurry to be gone.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

If so, he will contradict himself; for it is admitted that one soul is not more or less a soul than another, and therefore one can not he more or less harmonized than another, and one could not admit of a greater degree of virtue or vice than another; and indeed a soul, being harmony, could not partake of vice at all, which is discord.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

There is no manifold of coexisting ideas; the notion of such a thing is a chimera.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

There is no modification of the body, whereof we cannot form some clear and distinct conception.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

“Do not get angry,” replied the Gaviota, “you well know that brother Gabriel is not made of glass.”
— from La Gaviota: A Spanish novel by Fernán Caballero

The "run of water" is not marked on Beatty's map, nor on the map of survey of the patent in 1798, but it is marked, from existence or presumed existence, on a map of the boundary line between New York and Massachusetts and seems to have been one of the several small streams that flow down the bluff from the surface, apparently about two miles and a half north of Roelof Jansen's Kill, in the vicinity of the old Oak Hill station
— from Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. by Edward Manning Ruttenber

The Man of ready Utterance sat down by him, and rubbing his Head, leaning on his Arm, and making an uneasy Countenance, he began; 'There is no manner of News To-day.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

After Sheshonk I. no monarch of the line left any building or sculpture of the slightest importance.
— from Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

In the New York Times there is no mention of ballooning in Ca
— from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

He was not only technically the equal, if not master of them all, but he comprehended them, almost without exception.
— from Turner by W. Cosmo (William Cosmo) Monkhouse

There is not much of splendour or romance about the present-day Rue de Lille; indeed, it is rather commonplace, but as Dumas places the particular [Pg 256] house in which De Boissy lived with definiteness, and, moreover, in that it exists to-day practically unaltered, there seems every good reason why it should be catalogued here.
— from Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

I never murdered Oswald Langdon.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton