I know and feel that I am enchanted, and that is enough to ease my conscience; for it would weigh heavily on it if I thought that I was not enchanted, and that in a faint-hearted and cowardly way I allowed myself to lie in this cage, defrauding multitudes of the succour I might afford to those in need and distress, who at this very moment may be in sore want of my aid and protection."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I know and feel that I am enchanted, and that is enough to ease my conscience; for it would weigh heavily on it if I thought that I was not enchanted, and that in a faint-hearted and cowardly way I allowed myself to lie in this cage, defrauding multitudes of the succour I might afford to those in need and distress, who at this very moment may be in sore want of my aid and protection.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

One common remark may be made about them: there is not a single reason among the five which deserves to be called "good," and which does not condemn the man who gives it.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

" He knew that the soul lives in an invisible world—that flesh is but a mask, and that "There is no art to find the mind's construction
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Negative variation—Response recorder—Photographic recorder—Compensator—Means of graduating intensity of stimulus—Spring-tapper and torsional vibrator—Intensity of stimulus dependent on amplitude of vibration—Effectiveness of stimulus dependent on rapidity also 17 CHAPTER IV ELECTRIC RESPONSE IN PLANTS—BLOCK METHOD Method of block—Advantages of block method—Plant response a physiological phenomenon—Abolition of response by anæsthetics and poisons—Abolition of response when plant is killed by hot water 27 CHAPTER V PLANT RESPONSE—ON THE EFFECTS OF SINGLE STIMULUS AND OF SUPERPOSED STIMULI Effect of single stimulus—Superposition of stimuli—Additive effect—Staircase effect—Fatigue—No fatigue when sufficient interval between stimuli—Apparent fatigue when stimulation frequency is increased—Fatigue under continuous stimulation 35 CHAPTER VI PLANT RESPONSE—ON DIPHASIC VARIATION Diphasic variation—Positive after-effect and positive response—Radial E.M. variation 44 CHAPTER VII PLANT RESPONSE—ON THE RELATION BETWEEN STIMULUS AND RESPONSE Increased response with increasing stimulus—Apparent diminution of response with excessively strong stimulus 51 CHAPTER VIII PLANT RESPONSE—ON THE INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE Effect of very low temperature—Influence of high temperature—Determination of death-point—Increased response as after-effect of temperature variation—Death of plant and abolition of response by the action of steam 59 CHAPTER IX PLANT RESPONSE—EFFECT OF ANÆSTHETICS AND POISONS Effect of anæsthetics, a test of vital character of response—Effect of chloroform—Effect of chloral—Effect of formalin—Method in which response is unaffected by variation of resistance—Advantage of block method—Effect of dose 71 CHAPTER X RESPONSE IN METALS Is response found in inorganic substances?—Experiment on tin, block method—Anomalies of existing terminology—Response by method of depression—Response by method of exaltation 81 CHAPTER XI INORGANIC RESPONSE—MODIFIED APPARATUS TO EXHIBIT RESPONSE IN METALS Conditions of obtaining quantitative measurements—Modification of the block method—Vibration cell—Application of stimulus—Graduation of the intensity of stimulus—Considerations showing that electric response is due to molecular disturbance—Test experiment—Molecular voltaic cell 91 CHAPTER XII INORGANIC RESPONSE—METHOD OF ENSURING CONSISTENT RESULTS Preparation of wire—Effect of single stimulus 100 CHAPTER XIII INORGANIC RESPONSE—MOLECULAR MOBILITY: ITS INFLUENCE ON RESPONSE Effects of molecular inertia—Prolongation of period of recovery by overstrain—Molecular model—Reduction of molecular sluggishness attended by quickened recovery and heightened response—Effect of temperature—Modification of latent period and period of recovery by the action of chemical reagents—Diphasic variation 104 CHAPTER XIV INORGANIC RESPONSE—FATIGUE, STAIRCASE, AND MODIFIED RESPONSE Fatigue in metals—Fatigue under continuous stimulation—Staircase effect—Reversed responses due to molecular modification in nerve and in metal, and their transformation into normal after continuous stimulation—Increased response after continuous stimulation 118 CHAPTER XV INORGANIC RESPONSE—RELATION BETWEEN STIMULUS AND RESPONSE—SUPERPOSITION OF STIMULI Relation between stimulus and response—Magnetic analogue—Increase of response with increasing stimulus—Threshold of response—Superposition of stimuli—
— from Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose

CHAPTER XIV INORGANIC RESPONSE—FATIGUE, STAIRCASE, AND MODIFIED RESPONSE Fatigue in metals —Fatigue under continuous stimulation —Staircase effect —Reversed responses due to molecular modification in nerve and metal, and their transformation into normal after continuous stimulation —Increased response after continuous stimulation.
— from Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose

Now you must agree that this is not a suitable place for such an office.
— from A Girl Among the Anarchists by Isabel Meredith

I must add that there is not a spark of party feeling against those who wilfully remain outside.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

And so great minds assert that there is nothing a man can find to fight against his mortality or against the flight of time but painting only.
— from Michael Angelo Buonarroti With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda by Holroyd, Charles, Sir

There is every reason to feel dissatisfied with the slow progress that has been made in putting a stop to wrong-doing; it is our bounden duty now to act so as to secure redress for wrong-doing; but nevertheless we must also recognize the fact that some progress has been made, and that there is now a good deal of real sentiment, and some efficient sentiment, against international wrong-doing.
— from America and the World War by Theodore Roosevelt

" He knew that the soul lives in an invisible world—that flesh is but a mask, and that "There is no art to find the mind's construction In the face.
— from Shakespeare: A Lecture by Robert Green Ingersoll