For it would not be maintained, at least by the more judicious thinkers of this school, that such axioms are always to be found with proper exactness of form by mere observation of the common moral reasonings of men; but rather that they are at least implied in these reasonings, and that when made explicit their truth is self-evident, and must be accepted at once by an intelligent and unbiassed mind.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The individual is an extremely vulnerable piece of vanity: this vanity, when it is conscious of its high degree of susceptibility to pain, demands that every one should be made equal; that the individual should only stand inter pares .
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This proved the theories of Humphry Davy to be founded on truth, and more than once I found myself examining the thermometer in silent astonishment.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

No change made except that "through" is spelt "thro'," and in the last line "and" is substituted for "all".
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

She had made all the arrangements, and was lording it over the officials and impressing upon everyone the critical affairs of State business which impelled the important member of the Madrid Embassy to travel in such hot haste to the Spanish capital.
— from Sarita, the Carlist by Arthur W. Marchmont

Thus the astronomer draws his figures over the heavens, So that he may with more ease traverse the infinite space, Knitting together e'en suns that by Sirius-distance are parted, Making them join in the swan and in the horns of the bull.
— from The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller

One could not have anything much easier than this, it seems to me.
— from Farthest North, Vol. I Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

The most essential thing to insure success is to secure the best ingredients from an honest tradesman.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

The plot is more entertaining than this incongruous spectator weeping and hissing out of turn.
— from Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath by Ben Hecht

During the interval I will leave ‘The Lapwing’ in your care, and you must employ the time in studying the technical part of your profession.
— from Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia E. Barr

Now the odd thing was that, though I seemed to have given not one single thought to the future, though I seemed to have made no plan, but, on the contrary, to have confined myself exclusively to the idlest sort of musing upon the past, yet, as I walked into my dark room, I knew that I had definitely decided to leave Dursley at once, and take the next step in my career.
— from The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

If the way in which men express their thoughts is slipshod and mean, it will be very difficult for their thoughts themselves to escape being the same.
— from Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou