It is the same as a man running downhill, who falls if he tries to stop, and it is only by his continuing to run on that he keeps on his legs; it is like a pole balanced on one's finger-tips, or like a planet that would fall into its sun as soon as it stopped hurrying onwards.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Here and there his work is remarkable for its splendid imagination, for the stateliness of its verse, and for its rare bits of poetic beauty; but in dramatic instinct, in wide knowledge of human life, in humor, in delineation of woman's character, in the delicate fancy which presents an Ariel as perfectly as a Macbeth,--in a word, in all that makes a dramatic genius, Shakespeare stands alone.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

When he had made an end of his breakfast, and was wiping his knife on his leg, I said to him, without a word of preface,— “After you were gone last night, I told my friend of the struggle that the soldiers found you engaged in on the marshes, when we came up.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Our knowledge of Hindu literature is still very imperfect.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The little we know of his life is chiefly gathered from the Letters of Pliny the Younger, and from scattered allusions in his own works.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

He left no writings, and all that is known of his lectures is derived from his intimate friend and pupil, Cleitomachus.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

our good Lord willeth that this be known of His lovers in earth; and the more that we know [it] the more should we beseech, if it be wisely taken; and so is our Lord's meaning.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

[390] KROMESKIS OF HARE LEPOREM ISICIATUM THE HARE IS COOKED AND FLAVORED IN THE SAME [above] MANNER; SMALL BITS OF MEAT ARE MIXED WITH SOAKED NUTS;
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

A scientific view of nature and a profound knowledge of her laws is no doubt far more conducive to industry than a superstitious view; but it is also more favourable to the successful prosecution of war, which, indeed, always has been an industry like another.
— from History of Modern Philosophy by Alfred William Benn

The knowledge of His love is blessedness, is peace, is love, is everything; as we shall see in considering the last stage of this prayer.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

All chiefs in Polynesia are tall and portly; and Kamehameha owed his life in the battle with the Puna fishers to the vigour of his body.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

And what we know of his life is worthy of this work.
— from The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

But the Stone Knows only Her life is accursed, As She sinks in the depths of the Tarn, And alone.
— from Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling

I saw boys with a kind of hunted look in their eyes; and Death was the hunter.
— from Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

The best known of his lyrics is Florence Vane which has the sincerity and pathos of a real experience:— "I loved thee long and dearly, Florence Vane;
— from Poets of the South A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies with Typical Poems, Annotated by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter

GLADSTONE will introduce a Bill to render criminal the keeping of heifers loose in a field.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 by Various