There is no salmon, there are no tea-cups, there are the same kind of mushes as are used as stomachers by the eating hopes that makes eggs delicious.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

What a shame it would be if a fellow with such abilities should not make his way!'” “A crying shame,” burst in Tom, “but I neither see the abilities nor the way; would he kindly indicate how to find either or both?” “'My mother suggested,'” read on Sir Brook, “'two or three things which my father could readily obtain, but you know the price of the promotion; you know what I would have to—'” Here, once more, the old man stopped abruptly.
— from Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

In the work against infallibility circulated here by the Bishop of Mayence occurs the following passage: “Will it not seem to all nations that the authority of all Bishops is suppressed and sentenced to death, only in order to erect on such vast and manifold ruins the unlimited authority of the one Roman Pope?”
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

I did not note, in my simplicity, the cause of this vehemence; I never suspected that a new tie, undefined, but powerful, was binding her being, that in the depths of a spirit whose earnestness I have never seen equaled, there had sprung up an affection never to pass away, and one dangerously enhanced by the imaginative tendency of her nature.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Various

There is no such thing as new thought in the sense of new Truth, for what is truth now must have been truth always; but there is such a thing as a new presentment of the old Truth, and it is in this that the newness of the present movement consists.
— from The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward

However, there is no such thing as not trying.
— from The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast by F. R. (Francis Robert) Goulding

Well; if the heart be got round now into the right side, and the liver to the left; if man have no heroism in him deeper than the wish to eat, and in his soul there dwell now no Infinite of Hope and Awe, and no divine Silence can become imperative because it is not Sinai Thunder, and no tie will bind if it be not that of Tyburn gallows-ropes,—then verily you have changed all that; and for it, and for you, and for me, behold the Abyss and nameless Annihilation is ready.
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

But it is not so; there are not two ways of pleasing God; what conscience suggests, Christ has sanctioned and explained; to love God and our neighbour are the great duties of the Gospel as well as of the Law; he who endeavours to fulfil them by the light of nature is in the way towards, is, as our Lord said, "not far from Christ's kingdom;" for to him that hath more shall be given.
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

This appears to be a proof that there is no such thing as night, through the ambiguity in 'Day being, Night cannot be,' which in Greek, though not in English, is equally natural in the sense of Since it is day, it cannot be night, and, if day exists, night cannot.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 04 by of Samosata Lucian