But it nearly swept the remnant of her courage from Anne’s heart.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

One would say that not content with the ardent passion she inspires by a mixture of shyness and caresses, she is not sorry to rouse this passion by a little anxiety; one would say that when she is purposely amusing her young guests she means to torment Emile by the charms of a freedom she will not allow herself with him; but Sophy is too considerate, too kindly, too wise to really torment him.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

His long note swelled with calculations on that subject Page 318 (even supposing the most inaccurate of all calculations to be just) would be entirety thrown away, did it not serve to raise a wonderful opinion of his financial skill in those who are not less surprised than edified, when, with a solemn face and mysterious air, they are told that two and two make four.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

[3] Pain, then, is positive , and makes itself known by itself: satisfaction or pleasure is negative —simply the removal of the former.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Supposing a certain time selected is assured, suppose it is even necessary, suppose no other extract is permitted and no more handling is needed, suppose the rest of the message is mixed with a very long slender needle and even if it could be any black border, supposing all this altogether made a dress and suppose it was actual, suppose the mean way to state it was occasional, if you suppose this in August and even more melodiously, if you suppose this even in the necessary incident of there certainly being no middle in summer and winter, suppose this and an elegant settlement a very elegant settlement is more than of consequence, it is not final and sufficient and substituted.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

Again, a man will appear timid to me, if he fears an evil which I am accustomed to despise; and if I further take into consideration that his desire is restrained by the fear of an evil, which is not sufficient to restrain me, I shall say that he is cowardly; and in like manner will everyone pass judgment.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

If we want to show by example derived from experience that cavalry are better placed behind than in a line with infantry; that it is very hazardous without a decided preponderance of numbers to attempt an enveloping movement, with widely separated columns, either on a field of battle or in the theatre of war—that is, either tactically or strategically—then in the first of these cases it would not be sufficient to specify some lost battles in which the cavalry was on the flanks and some gained in which the cavalry was in rear of the infantry; and in the tatter of these cases it is not sufficient to refer to the battles of Rivoli and Wagram, to the attack of the Austrians on the theatre of war in Italy, in 1796, or of the French upon the German theatre of war in the same year.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

and a single person is never seen to reap the joy and solace that is found with married folks.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

You also understand, I trust, that this statement is not supposed to reveal the entire secret of the etiology of neurosis, but only emphasizes an important and indispensable condition.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

"Wal," ses I, "now see the result of 'applyin the principle.'
— from Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith

She is now seeking to rechain the slave who has escaped from his fetters.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

In its natural state, the root is small and slender; and the stem smooth and branching,—not much exceeding two feet in height.
— from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

But is not success the reward of the bold?
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

The reason why Giotto is so popularly known as having been a shepherd is that on the central tablet of the tower or campanile, facing the street, there is a bas-relief of a man seated in a tent with sheep before him, and this is naturally supposed to represent the builder or Giotto himself, since it fills the most prominent place.
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

And I never saw that ray of sunlight without thinking of the one I had seen upon that Sunday of long ago; nor without having the same, precisely the same sad emotion, scarcely diminished by time, and always full of the same mystery.
— from The Story of a Child by Pierre Loti

“The history of mankind is crowded with evidences proving that physical coërcion is not adapted to moral regeneration; that the sinful dispositions of man can be subdued only by love; that evil can be exterminated from the earth only by goodness; that it is not safe to rely upon an arm of flesh, upon man, whose breath is in his nostrils, to preserve us from harm; that there is great security in being gentle, harmless, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy; that it is only the meek who shall inherit the earth, for the violent, who resort to the sword, are destined to perish with the sword.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward

In a country reft into ten thousand petty governments, the majority of which are independent and jealous one of the other; where every freeman, inured to arms from the first hour that he is capable of bearing them, pants for an opportunity of displaying his valour in the field; where the cherished recollection of hereditary feuds; the love of plunder inherent in every savage breast, and the bigoted zeal of religious enthusiasts, all conspire to afford hourly pretexts for war—the sword of desolation is never suffered to rust within the scabbard.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

some other plan fer stoppin' me 'fore I smashed the hull rig, if I hadn't run into the mil'nery shop, but as it was, that fetched me to a stan'still, an' I never started to run agin."
— from David Harum A Story of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott