The tired pessimistic outlook, the mistrust of the riddle of life, the icy negation of disgusted ennui, all those are not the signs of the most evil age of the human race: much rather do they come first to the light of day, as the swamp-flowers, which they are, when the swamp to which they belong, comes into existence—I mean the diseased refinement and moralisation, thanks to which the "animal man" has at last learnt to be ashamed of all his instincts.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quod cum ita sit, putant quidam hanc comparationem non recte introductam, nec omnino de eo genere quicquam praecipiendum fuisse.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It not only defies explanation, it’s even beyond conjecture.”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

He meant to have her at any price, and she was very badly in need of deliverance, even though she might have to pay for it, and pay heavily.
— from Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

The two fifteenth-century plays constitute a distinct species which has attained to a high degree of differentiation if not of dramatic evolution, and critics who would see in them the origin of the later pastoral drama have to explain the strange phenomenon of the species lying dormant for nearly three-quarters of a century, and then suddenly developing into an equally individualized but very dissimilar form[ 164 ].
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

You will, of course, understand, gentlemen, that money is no object; do everything within your power, and you shall be abundantly compensated.”
— from The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour

Originally one of the jugglers who had accompanied the second crusade to the Holy Land, he had been made prisoner by the infidels; and, after several years' bondage, had been redeemed by De Coucy, who, from mere compassion, treated him with the greater favour and kindness, because he was universally hated and avoided by every one; though, to say the truth, Gallon the fool , as he was called, was perfectly equal to hold his own part, being vigorous in no ordinary degree, expert at all weapons, and joining all the thousand tricks and arts of his ancient profession, to the sly cunning which so often supplies the place of judgment.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

One crop of planted winter d’han or rice is cut in November or December, every year, from generation to generation.
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major

From the combination of the general motion of the sea from east to west, with the flux and reflux of the currents, and the winds, an infinite number of different effects has resulted, both on the bottom of the sea, and on the coasts.
— from Buffon's Natural History, Volume 02 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

There is now only deadly, exaggerated volition.
— from Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

There is no open dramatic embodiment in this play of the true ideal nobility, and manliness, and honour, and divinity.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon