Therefore, if the soul cannot be destroyed by moral evil, she certainly will not be destroyed by physical evil.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The most slender eulogium is acceptable to them; the most exalted seldom contents them; they unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their entreaties they fall to praising themselves.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

"You must have a vast and magnificent estate," said Candide to the Turk.
— from Candide by Voltaire

He was her distant relative, but the nearest who had survived the gradual extinction of her family; so that no more eligible shelter could be found for the rich and high-born Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe than within the province-house of a Transatlantic colony.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I assert, that instead of explaining the operations of external objects by its means, we utterly annihilate all these objects, and reduce ourselves to the opinions of the most extravagant scepticism concerning them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

For those few moments each soul communed with itself, and met with a shuddering there, or an exaltation, as the case might be.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

And if there is no magic in the evening prospect such as the sea and its ships under the flaming or mysterious enveiling sky can offer to the eye at Bombay, there is a quality of golden richness in the twilight over Calcutta, as seen across the Maidan, through its trees, that is unique.
— from Roving East and Roving West by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

Nothing but my extreme stupidity could have rendered me blind so long.
— from The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay by Mary Wollstonecraft

“And people laugh at me, forsooth, because I have always preferred Montfermeil, Ville d’Avray, Meudon, Montmorency, Enghien, Saint-Cloud, Champrosay, Saint-Germain, Vincennes, L’Isle-Adam, yes, even poor little Romainville, to England, Switzerland and Italy!
— from Paul and His Dog, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIV) by Paul de Kock

80 min. each, sd., color, 35 mm.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

"Not when the merchant enjoys such confidence as this wild little fellow," replied Melitta, blushing lightly.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen