I answered aloud, that I would neither suffer Mr. Bragwell nor him to use me ill with impunity; and that I stood in no need of his counsel in regard to the regulation of my conduct.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The pessimism of a Schopenhauer says no more than this,—that the murder is a symptom; and that it is a vicious symptom because it belongs to a vicious whole, which can express its nature no otherwise than by bringing forth just such a symptom as that at this particular spot.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

There is no need of description in such cases; the difference must be determined by the study of thousands of details.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

[8] el hombre está de más, man is not needed ( out of place ).
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But here be it premised, that owing to the unwearied activity with which of late they have been hunted over all four oceans, the Sperm Whales, instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached companies, as in former times, are now frequently met with in extensive herds, sometimes embracing so great a multitude, that it would almost seem as if numerous nations of them had sworn solemn league and covenant for mutual assistance and protection.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

In smell there is no notion of relievo, and odour seems to reside not in the object smelt, but in the organ.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

In this way nature is not judged to be sublime in our aesthetical judgements, in so far as it excites fear; but because it calls up that power in us (which is not nature) of regarding as small the things about which we are solicitous (goods, health, and life), and of regarding its might (to which we are no doubt subjected in respect of these things), as nevertheless without any dominion over us and our personality to which we must bow where our highest fundamental propositions, and their assertion or abandonment, are concerned.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

“You would have done better to come at noon; it is not nine o’clock yet, and madame did not come home till three o’clock this morning.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

David was an illiterate mystic, as his writings shew, in which, when the drift of his maundering is made out, there is nothing new or remarkable to be discerned.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

There is no note of new discovery or fresh enthusiasm in it, but the certitude and calmness of facts long known and policies long confirmed by experiment.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

A half-compression handle by which the exhaust cam is moved laterally on the side shaft as required is not needed on very small engines.
— from Gas and Oil Engines, Simply Explained An Elementary Instruction Book for Amateurs and Engine Attendants by Walter C. Runciman

Mrs. Carleton was in no need of hearing it.
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

"As all is not noble or just in a palace, neither is all to be condemned unheard, that we find in a prison.
— from The Bravo: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

His Promises, were as he then was, Mighty: But his performance, as he is now, Nothing: Of his owne body he was ill, and gaue The Clergy ill example Grif.
— from Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

There is no need of further dwelling on details—and it would be necessary to supply the details by somebody’s word of mouth—somebody who watched me, for I don’t remember much of what happened.
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

Brieux is now not only an Academician, but one of the stars of the Français.
— from Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett

It cannot be doubted that in those days the mode of worship of the people was exactly what it is now; no one cared much if at all for anything but the service at the altar, and the choir was banished to where it would be least seen, least heard, and least in the way!
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

Obviously there is no new or even deformed Nietzsche here, because he is still faithful to the position which he assumed in Thus spake Zarathustra, five years previously, and is perfectly conscious of this fidelity (see p. 141); neither can he be even on the verge of any marked change, because the whole of the third chapter, in which he reviews his life-work, is simply a reiteration and a confirmation of his old points of view, which are here made all the more telling by additional arguments suggested, no doubt, by maturer thought.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche