God is introduced everywhere, and utility is withdrawn; the natural origin of morality is denied everywhere: the veneration of Nature, which lies in acknowledging a natural morality, is destroyed to the roots....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Every feeling and every thought exists apart in me; and in all my criticisms of science, the theatre, literature, my pupils, and in all the pictures my imagination draws, even the most skilful analyst could not find what is called a general idea, or the god of a living man.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Mientras usted hablaba, yo, lo confieso ingénuamente, al mismo tiempo que en mi interior deploraba error tan grande, no podía menos de admirar lo sublime de la expresión, la prodigiosa facundia, el método sorprendente de su raciocinio, la fuerza de los 15 argumentos.... ¡Qué cabeza, señora doña Perfecta, qué cabeza la de este joven sobrino de usted!
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I believe that the world has never seen—and that, unless through some series of accidents goading the noblest order of mind into distasteful exertion, the world will never see—that full extent of triumphant execution, in the richer domains of art, of which the human nature is absolutely capable.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

No one on the main island does except the Family.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

I believe the world has never yet seen, and that, unless through some series of accidents goading the noblest order of mind into distasteful exertion, the world will never behold, that full extent of triumphant execution, in the richer productions of Art, of which the human nature is absolutely capable.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

where, I mean, I did encounter that obscene and most prepost'rous event that draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink which here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

When he arrived indeed, he would have preferred to have been shown at once to his rooms, but a message immediately delivered expressed the wish of his sister-in-law at once to see him.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success; but they labor at haphazard, building up with one hand only to tear down with the other.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

119; but the passage varies so much, in different editions, that no certain conclusion can be drawn from it.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

She now having an intention to return to me, I did expect the same."
— from Indian Biography; Vol. 1 (of 2) Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters by B. B. (Benjamin Bussey) Thatcher

Then a footman struck the door with a gold stick well embossed; and he struck again, and he struck again, more in dudgeon every time.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Tonic and alterative.— Dose , 1 to 2, night and morning; in debility, especially that of scrofulous habits, in chlorosis, &c. Pills of Bru′cine.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

Oft as I come, the hateful garden-row Of ruined roses hanging from the stem, Where winds of old defeat yet batter them, Infects me: suddenly must I depart, Ere thought of men’s injustice then and now Add to these aisles one other broken heart.
— from A Roadside Harp: A Book of Verses by Louise Imogen Guiney

Now his love turns into hatred, and when Drago, the faithful steward comes to announce that the servants begin to be more and more insolent, daring even to insult the good name of the Countess, Golo asserts that they speak the truth about her.
— from The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.

He had indeed the Whig temperament, and it manifested itself down even to the practice of reading aloud in company, which still prevails among the more representative survivors of the Whig tradition.
— from An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Emotion overflowed, moral nobility trickled down, their hearts melted in distracted effusions: the sluice gates were opened to the fearful German tender-heartedness: it weakened the energy of the stronger, it drowned the weaker under its grayish waters: it was a flood: in the depths of it slept German thought.
— from Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland