So I may say, that the excess of your fatherly affection drives me into such a strait, that I shall be forced to live and die ungrateful; unless that crime be redressed by the sentence of the Stoics, who say that there are three parts in a benefit, the one of the giver, the other of the receiver, the third of the remunerator; and that the receiver rewards the giver when he freely receives the benefit and always remembers it; as, on the contrary, that man is most ungrateful who despises and forgets a benefit.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

p. 60), “That man is morally unbelieving who does not accept that which, though impossible to know, is morally necessary to suppose.”
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

p. 60, “That man is morally unbelieving who does not accept that which though impossible to know is morally necessary to suppose.”
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

All night the silence seems to flow Beside me in my utter woe, Oriana.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

” “A forfeit!” cried a young man in militia uniform whom Julie called “mon chevalier,” and who was going with her to Nízhni.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

On the 4th of November he wrote from Windhausen to Graf Stolberg Wernigerode, “I have hesitated and vexed myself in much uncertainty whether or not I should go with the Herrnhuters to America.
— from The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740 by Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta) Fries

“There goes a suitor who will need a great deal of consolation,” said Mrs. Thrale, as a small man in military undress walked past the group with a scowl and a swagger.
— from A Nest of Linnets by Frank Frankfort Moore

The flash of the explosions would light up the busy scene—Indian drivers and their terrified mules inextricably mixed up with the piles of stores and water tins; mules braying and squealing, with the patient drivers striving to quieten them; the shells shrieking through the air; while the thunderous detonations punctuated the rhythmic lapping of the waves upon the beach, the moans of the wounded, and the insistent cries of "Stretcher bearer."
— from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite

Our mind is made up; whatever decision is arrived at, we are determined to have no more to do with it.
— from The Story of Napoleon by Harold Wheeler

Long before Monism there was a philosophy which conceived all cosmic energies to form a unity; and really it is only an obstinate quarrel about words, for the Hylozoists regard the universe as something living and ascribe life to all matter and all atoms of which matter is made up, while the Materialists regard life as a play of forces in matter.
— from Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau

I have never been here before, you know, and I could not help wondering, for a moment, what would become of me if my uncle were really taken ill.
— from The Lost Ambassador; Or, The Search For The Missing Delora by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

I introduced myself in my usual way, by giving her the sound for food, to which she promptly replied.
— from The Speech of Monkeys by R. L. (Richard Lynch) Garner

And whether I'm right or wrong, it 'ud be more of a satisfaction to me if Mr. Undershell was to step in and see the 'oof for himself.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, October 6, 1894 by Various

Can any man inform me under what conditions of life happiness is to be found?"
— from Toilers of Babylon: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon