I am aware that in giving even this I cannot but cause a certain offence to minds trained in good moral habits: but I trust I may claim the same indulgence as is commonly granted to the physiologist, who also has to direct the student’s attention to objects which a healthy mind is naturally disinclined to contemplate.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

If in a comparatively uninteresting field attention can find so many treasures of harmony and order, what beauties might it not discover in interpreting faithfully ideas nobler than extension and number, concretions closer to man's spiritual life?
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Of course a cultivated man is not deceived by these associations; he knows that these derived emotions are due to mere plays of the images and to entirely mental combinations, so he does not give way to the superstitions which these illusions tend to bring about.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

And for this money I never did condition with him or expected a farthing at the time when I did do him the service, nor have given any receipt for it, it being brought me by Luellin, nor do purpose to give him any thanks for it, but will wherein I can faithfully endeavour to see him have the privilege of his Patent as the King’s merchant.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“I say that because the young man is not dead.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Now, although Erasistratus knew that this faculty most certainly existed, he neither mentioned it nor denied it, nor did he make any statement as to his views on the secretion of urine.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

After demanding that full satisfaction should be made to Massanissa, it next decreed that the Carthaginians must at once give three hundred of their noblest youths as hostages to the Roman consuls Manilius and Censorinus, who had sailed to Lilybaeum with secret orders to let no concession induce them to stop the war until Carthage was destroyed.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Such music I never dreamed of, and the call in it is stronger even than the music is sweet!
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

And, madame, if, at last, you discover my love is changeless as fate itself, then—then may I not dare to hope for a return?”
— from The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming

Mrs. Mehta, anger lending strength to her vocal chords, at last called out indignantly, “You’re naughty, and the meeting is now dismissed!”
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger

To make this last statement clear, the reader is desired to recollect that the mind is not divided into parts and members like the body.
— from Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

This mill is now destroyed.
— from The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A. R. Creighton, for Indian M., Independence, N. D. 5.00 Fort Berthold.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 05, May, 1896 by Various

The servants noticed nothing, since Annie, the housemaid, who took in the coffee, brought in seven cups, not knowing that Mr. Inglethorp never drank it, whereas Dorcas, who cleared them away the following morning, found six as usual—or strictly speaking she found five, the sixth being the one found broken in Mrs. Inglethorp’s room.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

what must I not do?”
— from The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac

For some time he was in the service of the Society of Jesus, as teacher in the mission school at Beyrût; and as he was quite at home in the Arabic language, he under-took a journey into the then unknown country of Nedjd, the chief resort of the Wahâbis, about whom his book of travels contains many interesting new data.
— from The story of my struggles: the memoirs of Arminius Vambéry, Volume 2 by Ármin Vámbéry

The actual manufacture is not difficult.
— from Paint & Colour Mixing A practical handbook for painters, decorators and all who have to mix colours, containing 72 samples of paint of various colours, including the principal graining grounds by Arthur Seymour Jennings

"My father's honourable tool, consecrated by his memory, is now destroyed," said Lenz, distressed.
— from Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. In Three Volumes. Vol. III. by Berthold Auerbach