We must not make men "better," we must not talk to them about morality in any form as if "morality in itself," or an ideal kind of man in general, could be taken for granted; but we must create circumstances in which stronger men are necessary, such as for their part will require a morality (or, better still: a bodily and spiritual discipline) which makes men strong, and upon which they will consequently insist!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

See the Courts of Madrid and Naples; see a funzione at Cadiz—things are carried to a point of delirium.
— from On Love by Stendhal

This American fund is used for the expenses of administration, for educational advertising outside of magazine and newspaper space, and for various kinds of trade promotion and dealer stimulation.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

He said he had expected to improve his mind by coming to Europe, but a man might travel to the ends of the earth with me and never see anything, for I was manifestly endowed with the very genius of ill luck.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

They are the Rover boys I told you about—the fellows who helped to have me and Nappy sent away from school."
— from The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island; or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box by Edward Stratemeyer

My soul is mute, no melodies arise; No sacred accents, from her shattered chords; And speechless prayers alone, in broken sighs, Struggle for utterance, and find no words.
— from Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

Such men are necessarily set apart from their fellows.
— from Trusia: A Princess of Krovitch by Davis Brinton

Its surface is entirely under grass; for this part of Ireland has been largely turned into pastures; and sometimes one may drive for six miles and not see a field of grain.
— from Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland Being a Tourist's Guide to Its Most Beautiful Scenery & an Archæologist's Manual for Its Most Interesting Ruins by Thomas O’Neill Russell

In 1886 Mr. Woodward, of the United States Geological Survey, made a new survey, and found that the actual amount of recession in the center of the Horseshoe Fall had proceeded at an average rate of about five feet per annum.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 Volume LV by Various

They are, however, as a rule, more deliberate in their motions and not such active flutterers as are many of the Warblers.
— from Color Key to North American Birds with bibliographical appendix by Frank M. (Frank Michler) Chapman